Harris v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Yerdict. Charge of Court. Before Judge • Johnson. Washington Superior Court. September Term, 1878. Harris was convicted of hog-stealing. The evidence • showed that blood was traced to his house, some of it found in a pool in the yard, which it had been sought to conceal by raking dirt over it; hair was found in a pot on the place, . and also on the hearth of his house.
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Criminal law. Yerdict. Charge of Court. Before Judge • Johnson. Washington Superior Court. September Term, 1878. Harris was convicted of hog-stealing. The evidence • showed that blood was traced to his house, some of it found in a pool in the yard, which it had been sought to conceal by raking dirt over it; hair was found in a pot on the place, . and also on the hearth of his house. His explanations were unsatisfactory, the theory of the defense being that chickens had been killed on the place, and that the hair on the hearth came from the mortar in the chimney, which had been in use for…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
1. We think that the reported facts show the guilt of the defendant by circumstantial evidence. The blood was traced to his house from whence the hog was stolen, and the hair of a hog found there, with efforts apparently to hide it; and the explanations set up were inconsistent with each other, and apparently with the truth. Whether one or two chickens were killed, or by whom killed, their blood would not make the quantity in one place covered up with dirt, and the yard all freshly raked over looked suspicious; and the explanation that the hair came out of the mortar,,…
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