Case ID: ga_108/html/0786-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Fish, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Brandon v. The State.
    Argued June 19.
    Decided July 18, 1899
    Indictment for simple larceny. Before Judge Russell. Gwinnett superior court. March term, 1899.
    
      N. L. Hutchins Jr., John R. Cooper, and. Oscar Brown, for plaintiff in error. C. H. Brand, solicitor-general, contra.
   Fish, J.

A conviction of a felony was unwarranted, where the only witness implicating the accused in the crime was himself avowedly guilty, and the circumstances proved did not tend to connect the accused with the ofEense. Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.