Barton v. State

HAWKINS, Judge. —

Appellants are under conviction for the theft of property over the value of $50, and their punishment is assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years each.

The record contains only one bill of exception. As prepared and presented to the court it is'certified therein as facts that appellants had never been convicted of a felony, that they bore good reputations and were entitled to have the jury pass upon the question of whether their sentences should be suspended in the event of conviction; that they were poor men and without counsel to represent them; that they…