State v. Edgeworth

Taylor, Chief Justice.

Defendant was tried in the Court of General Sessions for Chesterfield County under an indictment charging him with housebreaking and larceny. It was contended by the State that certain items which had been taken from a house under construction in Chesterfield County were subsequently found in a house under repair by defendant in Darlington County. Defendant was found guilty of the charge of larceny and appeals upon exceptions which present, first, the question of whether defendant’s motion for a new trial upon the ground that the solicitor’s argument to the jury was…