Pritchett v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for burglary. Before Judge Bartlett. Bibb superior court. November term, 1892. Pritchett and Battle were charged with burglary. Battle pleaded guilty. Pritchett ivas tried and convicted, aud his motion for a new trial was overruled.
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Indictment for burglary. Before Judge Bartlett. Bibb superior court. November term, 1892. Pritchett and Battle were charged with burglary. Battle pleaded guilty. Pritchett ivas tried and convicted, aud his motion for a new trial was overruled. The motion contains, in addition to the general grounds, an assignment of error on the following instruction to^ the jury: “ The State claims that this man, together with Will Battle, on or about the time named, entered Gibson’s premises and found the door to his outhouse locked, and by using a key entered the house and stole certain goods. Now, a…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. Was the accomplice, Will Battle, sufficiently corroborated in that part of his testimony which implicated *35Pritchett in the burglary? We think he was. It appeared from the evidence of other witnesses that the door of the house was usually kept locked at night; that goods stored in .the house disappeared therefrom on a particular night and were shortly afterwards found, some of them in the possession of Pritchett and some in the possession of Will Battle, the witness. The evidence tends strongly to show that the usage as to locking the door was observed on the night…
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