Case ID: ga-app_4/html/0450-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

1144.
    Murray v. The State.
    Accusation of receiving stolen goods, from city court of Macon— Judge Hodges. March 14, 1908.
    Submitted June 9,
    Decided June 18, 1908.
    
      Nottingham & McClellan, for plaintiff in error.
    
      William Brunson, solicitor-general, contra.
   Powell, J.

In a prosecution for receiving stolen goods, proof of guilty knowledge on the part of the defendant in receiving the goods is an essential to a lawful conviction. There is a fatal lack of proof of the scienter in the present case. See Sanford v. State, ante, 449.

Judgment reversed.