Williams v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal from a conviction of grand larceny came on for submission March 24, 1966.

By true bill the Grand Jury accused Williams of stealing a $250 television receiver belonging to the county board of education. Tried to a jury he was convicted, adjudged guilty and sentenced to three years imprisonment.

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In June, 1963, Mr. Henry Haggard, a deputy sheriff of Mapleton County, Geor gia, went to Williams’s home to serve a warrant on Williams. He and his buddy knocked on Williams’s door. No one answered.

About 5:30 P.M. Williams came out and drove off in a pickup truck. The two…