Biggs v. State

Appellant, in the court below, by affidavit, was charged with feloniously stealing “three bushels of white field- corn” of the value of $2.40. §2452 Burns 1926; Acts 1905 p. 584, §378, as amended, Acts 1907 p. 86. He was tried before a jury, convicted and sentenced by the court to imprisonment in the State Prison for a period of from one to eight years, fined $1 and disfranchised for one year. From that judgment he appealed, and in this court has assigned as errors the action of the Starke Circuit Court in overruling his motion to require the sheriff of that county to return to him his shoes…