Case ID: ga-app_30/html/0283-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bloodworth, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

14422.
    Watson v. The State.
    Decided May 15, 1923.
    Indictment for larceny of hog; from Laurens superior court — Judge Kent. January 31, 1923.
    W. A. Dampier, for plaintiff in error.
    
      B. L. Stephens, solicitor-general, contra.
   Bloodworth, J.

The defendant was convicted of simple larceny on circumstantial evidence which did not “ exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.” The trial judge erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Judgment reversed,.

Broyles, O. J., and Luke, J., concur.