Walden v. State

Raymond Walden was tried and convicted of larceny of an automobile under an indictment which charged him with the theft of G. L. Martin’s black Ford coupe on September 2, 1949. His motion for a new trial, based upon the usual general grounds and four special grounds, was overruled and he excepted.

Special ground 2, numbered 5, of the motion for a new trial, assigning error upon the exclusion of certain of the testimony of John W. Mayes, a witness for the defendant, is without merit; for, while it appears from the record that the court first excluded the testimony in question, the court later…