Hawkins v. State

Deen, Judge.

1. Theft by taking consists in an unlawful appropriation of property with the intention of depriving the true owner. Code Ann. § 26-1802. Larceny is completed when there is an asportation, however slight, and although the goods are not removed from the land of the owner. Stanley v. State, 97 Ga. App. 828 (104 SE2d 591).

2. Where the defendant was indicted for theft and it was proved that he entered a piece of heavy machinery belonging to the prosecutor and left overnight at a construction site, cranked it up, drove about 2,000 feet and abandoned it when it became mired in a…