Daugherty v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court; W. B. Sorrells, Judge; 1. The verdict is not cruel nor excessive. Kirby’s Digest, § 1828; 45 L. R. A. (note) 136; 113 Ark. 454-464; 68 N. W. 636; 69 Id. 953; 78 Pac. 897; 102 Fed. 473. 2. The evidence fully sustains the verdict.
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
Appellant was convicted, on an indictment charging him with “feloniously taking, stealing and carrying away one buggy of the value of forty dollars, and one set of harness of the value of ten dollars, and one horse, all the property of L. F. Boston,” etc. The jury fixed the punishment at ten years in the State penitentiary, and from the judgment of sentence the appellant prosecutes this appeal.
The only specific ground in the motion for a new trial is because the verdict of the jury “assesses his punishment for grand larceny of property that the proof shows was not over forty dollars in value…
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