Pinkard v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for Simple Larceny, in Muscogee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Wore ill, at November Term, 1859. The plaintiff in error was indicted and found guilty of simple larceny.
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Indictment for Simple Larceny, in Muscogee Superior Court. Tried before Judge Wore ill, at November Term, 1859. The plaintiff in error was indicted and found guilty of simple larceny. He moved for a new trial on the following grounds: 1st. Because the Court erred in refusing to allow counsel for defendant to ask one Heggy, a witness who had been sworn for the State, and who testified that he went upon information that negroes were in that part of town being stolen, who gave him the information, and at whose instance he went. 2d. Because the Court erred in refusing to allow counsel for…
1Opinion of the Court
*759 By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.,
delivering the opinion.
We express no opinion as to the refusal of the Court to allow defendant’s counsel to ask the witness Heggy, who gave him the information that there were stolen negroes in a certain place in town. If the defendant wished to show that he himself put the officer on the pursuit of this property, and thus establish his innocence, or want of participation in the larceny, it was competent, unquestionably, to interrogate him to that point.
2. The Court was right in protecting Knowles from being compelled, contrary to the common law as well as the…
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