Wright v. State

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

Where the offense charged is larceny of a pistol, and the guilt of the accused is wholly dependent on an inference arising from his possession of the property recently stolen, and the testimony of the accused explaining his possession is entirely consistent with his innocence and in no way inconsistent with the perpetration of the offense by someone else, including numerous persons who had access to the key to the locked cabinet in which the pistol was stored, but not including the accused, as shown by his testimony and corroborated by a witness for the State, and no…