Jones v. State

Lumpkin, Justice.

A little girl was entrusted with a twenty dollar gold piece for the purpose of going to the market, buying a chicken, and returning with it and the change. The owner of the coin, through inadvertence, supposed it was a silver dollar, and the little girl was ignorant of its real value.

From the evidence for the State, which the jury evidently believed, it further appeared that the little girl went to the market, purchased a chicken of the accused at the price of twenty-five cents, and gave him the coin. Fie took it and said: “Do you want me to change all this money?” to which…