Case ID: ga_110/html/0270-01.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

Green v. The State.
    Submitted November 6,
    Decided November 28, 1899.
    Indictment for arson. Before Judge Henry. Floyd superior court. July term, 1899.
    
      H. M. Wright and C. E. Carpenter, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Moses Wright, solicitor-general, contra.
   Cobb, J.

The venue of the offense of arson is not sufficiently proved ' by evidence showing merely that the outhouse alleged to have been burned was at a point 35 or 40 feet from a dwelling-house, which was located in the county laid in the indictment. Fuich v. State, 90 Ga. 472. Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.