Lindsey v. State

The State accused Solomon Lindsey with the larceny of thirteen described hogs, the property of Miss Eddie Stanley. The evidence for the State was substantially to the effect that the defendant’s place adjoined that of the prosecutrix; that shortly after the disappearance of the hogs in question the defendant sold seven of them to the Georgia State asylum, and five more of them were found in his possession; and there was evidence on his premises to indicate that a hog of the kind and character of the thirteenth one, had been recently killed.

The judge did not err in submitting to the jury the…