Stiles v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for larceny. Before Judge Hart. Putnam superior court. April 15, 1901. Upon the trial of the plaintiff in error for stealing two bales of cotton, the testimony tended to prove the corpus delicti, the tracing of wagon-tracks from where the cotton was stolen to the premises of the accused, and the finding of the two bales, identified as the stolen ones, in an outhouse near the dwelling of the accused, where they were • covered with loose cotton.
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Indictment for larceny. Before Judge Hart. Putnam superior court. April 15, 1901. Upon the trial of the plaintiff in error for stealing two bales of cotton, the testimony tended to prove the corpus delicti, the tracing of wagon-tracks from where the cotton was stolen to the premises of the accused, and the finding of the two bales, identified as the stolen ones, in an outhouse near the dwelling of the accused, where they were • covered with loose cotton. Between the outhouse and the house of a laborer on the premises, as shown by a diagram and by testimony in connection therewith, was a sort…
1Opinion of the CourtLittle, J.
1. Whether the evidence for the State was overcome by that introduced in behalf of the accused, and whether the alibi sought to be proved was sufficiently made out, were questions properly left to the jury, which determined them adversely to the plaintiff in error ; and their finding being authorized by the evidence, the verdict will not be disturbed.
2. There was no error in the admission of the diagram, preliminary proof of its correctness having been made. It will not .be presumed that the jury undertook to decipher words thereon which the court directed to be erased, .and which, so far as…
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