Case ID: ga-app_36/html/0600-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

17813.
    Pullen v. The State.
    Decided March 8, 1927.
    Larceny of cotton; from Whitfield superior court — Judge Tarver. November 27, 1926.
    Tracks were relied on to connect the accused with the crime.
   Luke, J.

Aside from the fact that the party who was jointly indicted with the plaintiff in error for stealing 200 pounds of seed-cotton, and who had previously pleaded guilty to the theft charged, testified, when introduced as a witness for the State, that he alone stole the cotton, and that the plaintiff in error had nothing whatever to do with it, the conviction rests solely upon circumstantial evidence which does not exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused; and for this reason the verdict can not stand. Penal Code (1910), § 1010. See also Lindsey v. State, 9 Ga. App. 299 (3) (70 S. E. 1114), and cit.

Judgment reversed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.

George G. Glenn, D. W. Mitchell, for plaintiff in error.

G. G. Pittman, solicitor-general, contra.