Martin v. State

Lester Martin (hereinafter called the defendant) and Joe Medley were jointly indicted for and jointly tried and convicted of the larceny of an automobile. The defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted to that judgment. The evidence, although wholly circumstantial, authorized the jury to find, to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis, that the defendant and said Medley conspired together to steal the automobile, and did steal it in Marietta, Georgia, and that one of them, accompanied by the other, drove it to Canton, Georgia, where it was abandoned and…