Case ID: ga_74/html/0840-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blandeord, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wiley vs. The State of Georgia.
    Where an indictment charged a defendant with having stolen a white barrow hog, marked with a crop and underbit in each ear, and the prosecutor testified to having lost a white barrow hog with a crop in each ear, and there was no further' identification of the stolen property, this was not sufficient to warrant a verdict of guilty. It is incumbent on the state to show that the property alleged to have been stolen was, in fact, stolen; and if this is not done, the corpus delicti is not established.
    Judgment reversed.
    March 10, 1884.
   Blandeord, Justice.