Powell v. State

Judgment reversed.

Criminal iaw. Indictment. Verdict. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Fulton .superior court. March, term, 1891. R. J. Jordan, for plaintiff in error,

cited 55 Ga. 224.

C. D. Hill, solicitor-general, contra,

cited 13 Ark. 66; 2 Whar. Cr. L. §1839; 69 Ga. 738; 55 Ga. 222; 2 Bish. Cr. Pro. 702; Code, §4410.

Powell excepted to the overruling of his demurrer to the indictment (as to which see the first head-note), and to the overruling of his motion for a new trial, one ground of which motion was that the State .failed to prove any value of the watch in question, and while it was…