Duffer v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Greer county of the crime of grand larceny, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a year and a day.

Defendant was charged jointly with one Lum Sublett with the larceny of two bales of cotton. Information was filed on the 17th day of May, 1928, and defendants arraigned on the 2d day of July, 1928, and entered their pleas of “not guilty,” and then-after the case was set for trial on the 23d day of November, 1928. When their case was called for trial, they…