Hall v. State

*523The plaintiff in error was convicted at the September Term, 1872, of the Criminal Court of Shelby county of grand larceny. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment having been severally made and overruled, judgment of the court of three years confinement in the penitentiary was pronounced in conformity to the verdict of the jury, from which an appeal in error has been prosecuted to this court.

In the progress of the trial the Attorney General proposed to prove by the committing magistrate, upon the preliminary examination before whom James Brown was sworn, and cross-examined by the…