Grier v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for larceny from house; from Bibb superior court — Judge Mathews. July 20, 1920. The defendant was charged with having stolen two watches from Blouenstein’s pawn shop. It was testified that they were stolen from the shop on May 28, 1919; and, according to the evidence, the defendant pawned one of them at another pawn shop on the following day, and pawned the other about the same time at a third pawn shop. He was arrested four or five days later.
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Indictment for larceny from house; from Bibb superior court — Judge Mathews. July 20, 1920. The defendant was charged with having stolen two watches from Blouenstein’s pawn shop. It was testified that they were stolen from the shop on May 28, 1919; and, according to the evidence, the defendant pawned one of them at another pawn shop on the following day, and pawned the other about the same time at a third pawn shop. He was arrested four or five days later. An employee at the last-mentioned shop, who stated that he saw the defendant come into the shop to pawn a watch, testified: “After that I…
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
1. The first ground of the original motion for a new trial, not having been argued in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error, will be treated as abandoned.
2. The remaining grounds of the motion for a new trial are the general grounds “with variations,” and exceptions to an excerpt from the charge, and to the failure of the judge to charge a certain proposition. When the entire charge is considered there is no merit in the attack upon it. The able presiding judge, in his order overruling the motion for a new trial, said: “The above-stated motion coming on regularly to be heard on the…
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