State v. Denison

The appellant was convicted of grand larceny in the circuit court of Jefferson county and his punishment assessed at two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. There were 21 assignments of error in his motion for new trial in the circuit court. Some of these are too indefinite to meet the requirements of the new trial statute, Sec. 4125. * In his brief he makes some assignments of error which were not presented in the motion. We shall presently take up in order all the assignments on appeal that are open to review. But first, we state the evidence.

The prosecuting witness, J. W. Harbour,…