Case ID: ga-app_17/html/0315-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Russell, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

6338.
    Hawkins v. The State.
    Decided October 29, 1915.
    Indictment for burglary; from Fulton superior court — Judge B. H. Hill. January 9, 1915.
    
      H. G. Greenlee, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Hugh M. Dorsey, solicitor-general, H. A. Stephens, contra.
   Russell, C. J.

1. Prima facie the term “recently” imports reference to a transaction in the immediate past. Consequently, proof that a store was recently burglarized must, in the absence of any further inquiry, or any other testimony upon that point, be held to refer to a point of time within four years, the period within which prosecutions for burglary must be instituted.

2. The evidence authorized the verdict, and there was no error in overruling the motion for a new trial. Judgment affirmed.