Taylor v. State

Appellant was indicted in the circuit court of Crawford County for burglary and grand larceny jointly with James Wallace. Upon the trial he was acquitted of burglary, but convicted of grand larceny, and adjudged to serve a term of one year in the State penitentiary as a punishment therefor. From the judgment of conviction he has duly prosecuted an appeal to this court.

Appellant seeks a reversal of the judgment upon several alleged assignments of error.

The first assignment is that the court overruled his motion for a continuance. The motion was filed the day before the trial, and stated that…