Stevens v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Evidence. Before Judge John T. Clarke. Early Superior Court. April Term, 1886. Alex. Stevens was indicted for the larceny of a black sow-hog, the property of D. P. Rowland. On the trial, the evidence for the State was, m brief, as follows : The hog was a pet, and was in the habit of going up to the house and did not run away. It was missed from the owner’s lot on Sunday, and he suspected the defendant, who lived about three hundred yards away.
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Criminal Law. Evidence. Before Judge John T. Clarke. Early Superior Court. April Term, 1886. Alex. Stevens was indicted for the larceny of a black sow-hog, the property of D. P. Rowland. On the trial, the evidence for the State was, m brief, as follows : The hog was a pet, and was in the habit of going up to the house and did not run away. It was missed from the owner’s lot on Sunday, and he suspected the defendant, who lived about three hundred yards away. In company with two others, he went to the defendant’s house, looking for his hog as a stolen hog. He asked the defendant to permit him…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
• 1. In the house hog bones, in the garden hog hair, hog entrails, hog meat, buried m the earth, refusal of the occupant of the premises to permit a search without legal warrant, his abrupt departure from home whilst the warrant was being procured, his flight or retreat to a point more than fifty miles distant, and his continuous absence until arrested and brought back for trial, aré strongly suggestive of a suspicious intercourse on his part with some hog or other. The jury were of opinion that it was the hog described in the indictment; and as he was a near neighbor…
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