Darnell v. State

The accused was convicted, on separate indictments, of the larceny of two automobiles — a Chevrolet and a Eord. By consent of both parties the two cases were tried together. The evidence shows that the Ford car was owned by J. P. Joiner and while parked in front of his home in Fulton County, Georgia, it was stolen by some one about 10 p. m. on March 4, 1937; that six days after the theft, the defendant was in possession of the same car in Rockmart, Georgia, and sold it to Harry Ferguson, who gave the defendant, in exchange, a Chevrolet car and a certain sum of money to boot; that officers…