Case ID: ga_121/html/0590-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Evans, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harvey v. The State.
    Submitted January 16, —
    Decided January 26, 1905.
    Indictment for simple larceny. Before Judge Spence. Worth superior court. November 28, 1904.
    
      Claude Payton, for plaintiff in error.
    
      W. E. Wooten, solicitor-general, contra.
   Evans, J.

1. An indictment for simple larceny, which charges the accused with stealing “one black and white male hog,'of the personal goods” of a named person, sets forth a legally sufficient description of the stolen property. Brown v. State, 44 Ga. 300 ; Rivers v. State, 57 Ga. 28.

2. “ The failure to charge a proposition of law applicable to the case can not be taken advantage of by assigning error upon a charge which is abstractly correct.” Roberts v. State, 114 Ga. 450.

3. The evidence authorized the conviction of the accused, and the trial judge did not abuse his discretion in declining to grant a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.