Dedge v. State

Plaintiff in error was informed against for breaking and entering a dwelling with intent to commit a felony, to-wit: grand larceny. He was tried and convicted and sentenced to serve ten years in the State Penitentiary.

On writ of error to be relieved of the judgment so imposed, it is urged that incompetent or prejudicial evidence was permitted to go to the jury, that the evidence as a whole was insufficient to convict and that the proof of identity was too weak and unsatisfactory .to support the conviction.

The cause might be reversed on any or all three grounds. The proof of the identity of…