State v. Brown

ODOM, Justice.

Defendant has appealed from a conviction and sentence to hard labor for cow stealing. We find in the record eight bills of exception. We find it necessary to notice only two of them.

Bill of exception No. 3 presents the question whether the State in a prosecution for cow stealing may prove that the defendant had been previously prosecuted and convicted of like crimes.

The facts in connection with this particular bill are stated by the district judge in his per curiam as follows:

“Deputy Sheriff Black before taking the stand handed the District Attorney two indictments under which…