Case ID: ga-app_7/html/0811-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J. Hill, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

2627.
    PORTER v. THE STATE.
    The evidence was legally sufficient to authorize the verdict.
    Accusation of misdemeanor; from city court of Athens — Judge West. March 29, 1910.
    Submitted May 17,
    Decided June 14, 1910.
    
      Gordon Knox, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Stephen O. Upson, solicitor, Carlisle Cobb, contra.
   Powell, J.

This was a prosecution for cheating and swindling, under the “labor-contract law” of 1903 (Acts 1903, p. 90). The evidence, though very weak as to some of the salient elements of the offense, is not legally insufficient to support the verdict.

Judgment affirmed.

Hill, C. J.,

dissenting. I believe the defendant’s testimony rebuts the statutory presumption of fraudulent intent.