COLE v. STATE

No. 38731.

217 Miss. 779 (1953)

65 So.2d 262

34 Adv. S. 24

COLE v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 8, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy E. Johnson, Smallwood, Sumners & Hickman, for appellant.

Geo. H. Ethridge, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


ETHRIDGE, J.

Appellant, W.B. Cole, alias W.B. Boyd, was convicted in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Panola County of grand larceny, for the theft of three automobile tires and an electric power saw, belonging to the Short Planting Company, a partnership. The only evidence in the record connecting appellant with the theft was the testimony of an alleged accomplice, Willie Hightower, and a confession by appellant.

The theft apparently occurred...

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