Durham v. State

The defendant (George Durham) and J. C. Durham were jointly indicted for stealing a cow of the value of $20 from J ames Bryant. A jury found the defendant guilty, and the court *422sentenced Mm to serve six months on the chain-gang. The exception here is to the overruling of the motion for a new trial, based upon the usual general grounds and four special grounds.

In his brief counsel for plaintiff in error insists that “the evidence adduced on the trial of the case either shows that the defendant in good faith purchased the cow in question from the witness Bentley, or that plaintiff in error and…