Dennison v. State

91 Ga. App. 143 (1954)

85 S.E.2d 179

DENNISON

v.

THE STATE.

35382.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided December 1, 1954.

Wm. A. Zorn, for plaintiff in error.

W. Glenn Thomas, Solicitor-General, contra.

CARLISLE, J.

Where, on the trial of one charged with the simple larceny of a certain described hog, it appears from all the evidence, and every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom, that the alleged owner (a landlord) of the hog voluntarily and without being induced by fraud, delivered to the defendant (his tenant-sharecropper) a number of brood sows under an agreement that the defendant should…