Springer v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for receiving stolen goods. Before. Judge Candler. Fulton superior court. March term, 1897. The indictment charged, that Springer did buy and receive from W. E. Sanders and Henry Sims three boxes of domestic goods, and eight dozen pairs of pants, of the value of $300, the property of Draper, Moore & Company, the said domestic goods and pants having been feloniously taken and stolen from the storehouse of said Draper, Moore & Co., by said Sanders and Sims, said…
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Indictment for receiving stolen goods. Before. Judge Candler. Fulton superior court. March term, 1897. The indictment charged, that Springer did buy and receive from W. E. Sanders and Henry Sims three boxes of domestic goods, and eight dozen pairs of pants, of the value of $300, the property of Draper, Moore & Company, the said domestic goods and pants having been feloniously taken and stolen from the storehouse of said Draper, Moore & Co., by said Sanders and Sims, said Springer well knowing at the time he bought and received said goods and pants that they were feloniously taken and stolen,…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
1. “An accomplice is strictly defined as one who is associated with others in the commission of a crime, all being principals.” 1 Am. & Eng. Ene. L. (2d ed.) 389. Participation in the commission of the same criminal act, and in the execution of a common criminal intent, is therefore necessary to render one criminal, in a legal sense, an accomplice -of another. “Criminal intent is a necessary ingredient of •crime, and is essential to render one an accomplice. It follows that where this element is absent, one is not an accomplice.” Ibid. 391. Applying this rule to a case where two persons are…
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