Case ID: ga-app_17/html/0364-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Russell, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

6396.
    Gilliard v. The State.
    Decided November 19, 1915.
    Indictment for larceny from house; from Irwin superior court— Judge George. February 1, 1915.
    
      Hendriclcs, Mills & Hendriclcs, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Joseph B. Wall, solicitor-general, contra.
   Russell, C. J.

The State, by proving the corpus delicti, the venue, and the recent possession of the stolen property, and its sale by the defendant, made a prima facie case. Whether the defendant’s explanation of his possession of the property was consistent with his innocence and satisfactory to the jury was a matter exclusively for them. In such a case, in the absence of error upon' the trial, the Court of Appeals is without authority to interfere.

2. The motion for a new trial was based upon the usual general grounds, and was properly overruled. Judgment affirmed.