Case ID: ga-app_23/html/0784-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

10367.
    Amason v.The State.
    Decided June 9, 1919.
    Indictment for larceny; from Eulton superior court—Judge Hill. December 21, 1918.
    
      Ernest G. Bentley, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John A. Boykin, solicitor-general, E. A. Stephens, contra.
   Broyles, P. J.

The conviction of the accused depended wholly upon circumstantial evidence. The court therefore erred in failing, even in the absence of a timely written request, to charge the law of circumstantial • evidence. While “it is immaterial what language is employed to convey this instruction” (Mangum v. State, 5 Ga. App. 445, 63 8. E. 543; Bush v. State,: 23 Ga. App. 126, 97 S. E. 554), there was no language in the charge in the instant case which sufficiently presented it. Because of this error a new trial is required.

Judgment reversed.

Bloodworth and Stephens,.JJ., concur.