Case ID: ga_114/html/0096-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James v. The State.
    Argued October 21,
    Decided November 7, 1901.
    Accusation of larceny. Before Judge Hobbs. City court of Albany. May term, 1901.
    
      J. W. Walters, by Culberson & Willingham, for plaintiff in error. John D. Pope, solicitor, by Z. D. Harrison, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

An intention to steal is an essential element of the offense of larceny ; and therefore, in the trial of a person charged with this offense and whose defense was that he had taken the goods under a bona fide claim of right, it was error for the judge to refuse to submit to the jury the question of intention, and to charge that if the accused appropriated the goods he was. guilty regardless of his intention. Zee v. State, 102 Ga. 221, and cases cited.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.