State v. Hoy

Appellant was convicted in the district court of St. Louis county of the crime of grand larceny in the first degree, and appeals from the judgment rendered against him.

There is but one question in the case, and that is presented by an exception to the charge of the trial judge to the jury. In speaking on the subject of the credit to be given to several witnesses, the court charged the jury as follows:

“You will not allow yourselves to be imposed upon, nor led into the belief of unreasonable stories on the part of either the prosecution or of the defense. You must bear in mind the tendency on…