Case ID: ga-l-rep_1/html/0422-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hall, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sewell vs. State.
    Simple Larceny, prom Talbot. Criminal Laiv. Charge of Court. (Before Judge-Willis.)
   Hall, J.

The evidence in this case was ample to sustain the conviction, and there was no error in the charge that if the prisoner fled,, his flight was a circumstance that could be considered by the jury in •determining his guilt, unless it was shown to be from another cause •than from a sense of guilt, or was otherwised explained. 20 Ga., 156, 166; 26 Id., 276, 281; 63 Id., 170.

J. J. Bull; J. H. Worrill, for plaintff in error.

Thos. W. Grimes, solicitor general, by J. M. McNeill, for the state.

Judgment affirmed.