Case ID: ga-app_27/html/0182-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

12369.
    Woods v. The State.
    Decided June 14, 1921.
    Accusation of larceny; from city court of Tifton — Judge Price. March 11, 1921.
    The accused was charged with stealing a saw and tw'O axes. There was testimony by Rowland, that he hired accused as a tie-chopper; that he furnished the three tools just mentioned, and lent them to accused, and did not charge them to him; that after working two or three weeks the accused left and went to work for another person, owing Rowland $80 when he quit, which amount Rowland had not been able to collect; and that Rowland had not since seen the tools. For the accused there was testimony to the effect that when he went to work for Rowland he already had a broad ax and a club ax, and borrowed of Williams (a witness) a crosscut saw, which he left in the house of another witness, where it remained; and that he bought a club ax and had it charged to himself. In his statement he denied that Rowland lent him any tools; etc.
    
      Murrow & Bennet, for plaintiff in error.
    
      R. E. Dinsmore, solicitor, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

In this case the conviction of the defendant was not authorized by the evidence, and it was error for the court to overrule the motion for a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

Lulce and Bloodworth, JJ., concur.