Case ID: ga-app_1/html/0778-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

396.
    Tatum et al. v. The State.
    Accusation of larceny from house, from city court of Sylvester —Judge Park. February 23, 1907.
    Submitted April 22,
    Decided May 9, 1907.
    
      Payton & Tidy, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      J. IT. Tipton, solicitor, contra.
   Hill, C. J.

1. Proof of the corpus delicti is the first essential fact in a criminal charge; and where it is not shown beyond a reasonable doubt, a conviction would be unlawful.

2. There was no evidence in this case that the crime charged had been committed; and the verdict should have been set aside and a new trial granted. Judgment reversed.