Duckett v. State

Jackson, Chief Justice,

The defendant being found guilty of simple larceny in stealing a horse, moved for a new trial on* two grounds, the first of which is that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence. The facts are that the *370horse was taken from the pasture where the prosecutor put him at night, and that defendant sold him at Chattanooga within a day or two afterwards, and said to the purchaser that he got him from his brother who lived in Murray county, Georgia—that he, defendant, had the horse about one month, and his brother about a year—that defendant lived in three miles of the…