Browning v. State

Taylor, C. J.:

At the Spring term, 1898, of the Circuit Court for DeSoto county the plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of larceny of a hog, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for one year, and for reversal of such sentence applies here by writ of error.

Two errors are assigned, that really amount to but one, vis: That the court erred in denying the defendant’s motion for new trial: First, because the verdict *272was not founded upon the weight of evidence, and because the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict ; second, because the motion for new trial should have…