May v. State

Decision Date04 June 1900
CitationMay v. State, 111 Ga. 840, 36 S.E. 222 (Ga. 1900)
PartiesMAY v. STATE.
CourtGeorgia Supreme Court

Syllabus by the Court.

Even if the evidence was sufficient to show that the defendant committed the larceny with which she stood charged, a new trial should nevertheless have been granted, because no proof was made of the value of the article alleged to have been stolen, nor of the time at which the larceny was committed.

Error from city court of Brunswick; J. D. Sparks, Judge.

Irena May was convicted of larceny, and brings error. Reversed.

Max Isaac, for plaintiff in error.

J. T. Colson, Sol. pro tem., and J. W. Bennett, Sol. Gen., for the State.

PER CURIAM.

Judgment reversed.

FISH, J., absent on account of sickness.

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4 cases
  • Lane v. State
    • United States
    • Georgia Supreme Court
    • July 22, 1901
    ...the judge should have granted a new trial. Hawkins v. State, 95 Ga. 458, 20 S.E. 217; Smith v. State, 95 Ga. 460, 21 S.E. 45; May v. State, 111 Ga. 840, 36 S.E. 222. It does distinctly appear from the evidence for the state exactly what was the relation that existed between the prosecutor a......
  • Moore v. State
    • United States
    • Georgia Court of Appeals
    • December 6, 1935
    ...the time when it was stolen. It follows that the conviction was unauthorized, and the refusal to grant a new trial was error. May v. State, 111 Ga. 840, 36 S.E. 222; Lane v. State, 113 Ga. 1040, 39 S.E. 463, and cit. The remaining assignments of error are not passed on. Judgment reversed. M......
  • Moore v. State
    • United States
    • Georgia Court of Appeals
    • December 6, 1935
  • May v. State
    • United States
    • Georgia Supreme Court
    • June 4, 1900