Case ID: ga_112/html/0121-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cobb, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lawrence v. The State.
    Argued October 15,
    Decided October 31, 1900.
    Indictment for simple larceny. Before Judge Felton. Bibb .superior court. June 28, 1900.
    
      M. Felton Hatcher, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Robert Hodges, solicitor-general, contra.
   Cobb, J.

The request to charge which was refused was covered by the general charge. The charge"of the judge not in any way referring to the rule that the recent possession of stolen property raises a presumption of guilt against the possessor, it was not error to fail to charge in reference to the manner in which such presumption might be rebutted, especially when there was no appropriate written request calling for an instruction on the subject. The evidence authorized the verdict, and there was no error requiring the granting of a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lumpkin, P. J., and Little, J, absent.