Soule v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Larceny. Before Judge Hammond. Fulton Superior Court. April Term. 1883. Defendant was indicted for larceny after trust. The evidence showed, in brief, as follows: He desired to go from Atlanta, Georgia, to Jacksonville, Florida, and purchased from one Shelton a ticket for that purpose. The ticket was a round-trip ticket with coupons for passage from Chicago to Jacksonville and return.
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Criminal Law. Larceny. Before Judge Hammond. Fulton Superior Court. April Term. 1883. Defendant was indicted for larceny after trust. The evidence showed, in brief, as follows: He desired to go from Atlanta, Georgia, to Jacksonville, Florida, and purchased from one Shelton a ticket for that purpose. The ticket was a round-trip ticket with coupons for passage from Chicago to Jacksonville and return. As the coupons were mot good if detached, defendant was entrusted with the entire ticket to use the coupons to Jacksonville and return the balance. One Kattenhorn went security for defend.ant, so…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted, under '§4422 of the Code, for the offence of larceny after a trust. A motion was made for a new trial, and refused, upon the following grounds:
(1.) That the verdict is contrary to law and evidence.
(2.) Because the court erred in charging that, if the defendant did not fraudulently convert the tickets to his own use in Fulton county, the jury should look further to *269the evidence to see whether he disposed of them out of said county, without the consent of the owner or bailor, and to his injury, and whether he failed or refused to…
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