Adams v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of petit larceny — it being alleged in the indictment, and the jury finding, that he “feloniously took and carried away two rolls of wire fence, of the value of Twenty Two Dollars, the personal property of A. S. Griffin.” Code 1928, Sec. 4908, Code 1940, Tit. 14, § 334.

The evidence in the case was entirely circumstantial; and the following comment by the learned trial judge, as taken from his oral charge to the jury, is in every sense correct, to-wit: “it is simply a question of fact to be determined by this jury as to whether or not this…