Wood v. State

“In a prosecution for a violation of the ‘labor contract act’ (Penal Code of 1910, § 715), the State, to complete its presumptive case, must show that there was no good reason why the contract was not performed, or no good reason why the accused did not return the money advanced to him. Without this proof the-case'for the State is incomplete, because the prosecution has failed to create the evidentiary presumption necessary to rebut the presumption of innocence. Lewis v. State, 15 Ga. App. 406 (83 S. E. 439). It does not affirmatively appear in this case that the failure to perform the…