Martin v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment. Before Judge Brown. City court of Carroll county. June term, 1894. The indictment charged Ben Martin “with the offense of accessory after the fact,” alleging that in Carroll county on March 1,1894, “ one Lucius Williams having entered the storehouse of E. M. Bass & Company, . . and one sack of corn containing two bushels, and fifty pounds of flour in a sack, and two sacks of bran containing 160 pounds, in said storehouse found, did take and carry away with the…
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Indictment. Before Judge Brown. City court of Carroll county. June term, 1894. The indictment charged Ben Martin “with the offense of accessory after the fact,” alleging that in Carroll county on March 1,1894, “ one Lucius Williams having entered the storehouse of E. M. Bass & Company, . . and one sack of corn containing two bushels, and fifty pounds of flour in a sack, and two sacks of bran containing 160 pounds, in said storehouse found, did take and carry away with the intent to steal the same, . . and the said Ben Martin, knowing that the said property was' stolen as above stated, did in…
1Opinion of the Court
*479 Judgment in both cases affirmed.
Error is assigned o-n the following charge: “If you believe from the testimony in this case that the articles mentioned in this bill of indictment were stolen from a warehouse instead of a storehouse, and that goods, wares and other valuable merchandise were stored in said warehouse by E. M. Bass & Co., and they delivered some goods to their customers from the same, and that the articles mentioned in this bill of indictment were stored in said warehouse and from thence stolen, then I charge you that a warehouse is a storehouse within the meaning of the law,…
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