Morton v. State

• Decision Date: 11 August 1903
• Parties: MORTON v. STATE.
• Court: Georgia Supreme Court

45 S.E. 395

118 Ga. 306

MORTON v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia

August 11, 1903

Syllabus by the Court.

1. The evidence, while entirely circumstantial, was sufficient to support the conviction of the accused.

2. This being an accusation of simple larceny, and the evidence authorizing a finding that the stolen property was carried by the accused into the county where the accusation was sworn out, even if the actual theft was committed in another county, it was not error for the court to hold that the accused was guilty of larceny in the county where the accusation was sworn out. Pen. Code 1895, § 155; Green v. State, 41 S.E. 642, 114 Ga. 918.

Error from City Court of Dublin; J. S. Adams, Judge.

Ben Morton was convicted of larceny, and brings error. Affirmed.

Davis & Sturgis, for plaintiff in error.

G. H. Williams, for the State.

CANDLER, J.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except TURNER, J., not presiding.