Cadle v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was charged by indictment with robbery, but on the trial of the case, from the judgment of which this appeal was taken, he was convicted of petit larceny for having feloniously taken and carried away $4.60 lawful money of the United States of America, etc. the personal property of Missouri Cobb, etc.

The corpus delicti was proven without dispute or conflict. The controlling question in the case was, and is, the identity of the person who committed the larceny. The defendant, a boy sixteen years of age, s'trenuously denied any connection with or knowledge…