Brooks v. State

From the evidence it appears that G. W. Abernathy, the prosecutor, on returning to his sawmill one Monday morning, missed certain brass attachments of the machinery, which he had left on it the Friday before; and that on the same Monday morning the defendant carried these attachments to the depot in a sack, and started to ship them to Atlanta by freight. “He shipped them in his own name, in daylight, and made no effort to conceal the fact that he was shipping the brasses.” The defendant was a dealer in old brass, iron, etc. When the sheriff came with the search warrant, the defendant agreed…