Edwards v. State

Simmons, Justice.

It appears, from the record in this case, that Edwards was accused in the city court of Atlanta of the offence of a misdemeanor, in “buying and receiving from T. B. Hunnaway and Guy King two woolen shirts of the value of four dollars, the property of J. P. Northrop, knowing the same to have been stolen and feloniously taken. The accusation further alleges that Hunnaway had fled the State and was beyond the jurisdiction of the court, and that “ Guy King had been given, on his trial on a charge of larceny from the house for a sum under fifty dollars, a verdict of not guilty, on…