Case ID: ga_58/html/0139-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Warner, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Allen Taylor, plaintiff in error, vs. Howard VanEpps, solicitor general, defendant in error.
    Larceny from the house was one of the felonies reduced to misdemeanors by the act of March, 1866, and since that act the solicitor general is entitled to the same costs, in case of conviction, as before.
    Criminal Law. Costs. Before Judge Clark. City Court of Atlanta. September Term, 1876.
    Reported in the decision.
    Thomas Einley, for plaintiff in error.
    Howard YanEpps, solicitor general, for defendant.
   Warner, Chief Justice.

This was an accusation against the defendant in the city court of Atlanta, of the offense of “ larceny from the house,” in which he was accused of privately stealing, in the storehouse of Philip Trimble, one umbrella, the property of the prosecutor, of the value of three dollars. On his trial for the offense, the defendant was found guilty, and the only question made and decided in the court below was, whether the offense, of which the defendant was accused, was a reduced felony by the act of March, 1866, so as to entitle the solicitor to charge $30.00 as costs, as provided by the 1646th and 1650th sections of the Code. The court held that the offense was a reduced felony under the act of 1866, and that the solicitor was entitled to $30.00 costs, whereupon the defendant excepted. We find no error in the ruling of the court under the law as it now stands.

Let the judgment of the court below be affirmed.