Morris v. State

The defendant and Daniel P. Brown were jointly indicted for the larceny of an automobile. Upon the trial of the defendant, he was convicted of the offense charged; his motion for a new trial was overruled, and that judgment is assigned as error. .

The evidence showed the following undisputed facts: On October 26, 1944, the prosecutor parked his automobile in front of his house on Grant Street in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, at about 11 o’clock at night; in less than five minutes after so doing he heard the motor crank, ran out, and saw that the car was gone; he immediately telephoned the…