State v. Dooley

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict of a jury finding the defendant guilty of the crime of grand larceny.

Two errors are assigned: first, that the court instructed the jury as to the weight to be given by them to admissions and conversations made by a defendant. It is true that this instruction could have no reference to the appellant, for there is nothing in the record showing either a confession or admission by him, but the appellant was jointly tried with another, who had made statements in the nature of admissions as defined in the instruction. State v. Duncan, 101…