Case Name: HOLTON v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1942-04-09
Citations: 67 Ga. App. 345
Docket Number: 29374
Parties: HOLTON v. THE STATE.
Judges: MacIntyre and Gardner, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 67
Pages: 345–346

Head Matter:
29374.
HOLTON v. THE STATE.
Decided April 9, 1942.
Rehearing denied May 13, 1942.
Alfred Herrington Jr., for plaintiff in error.
George L. Smith 2d, solicitor, I. W.- Rountree, contra.

Opinion:
Broyles, C. J.
The defendant was convicted of trespass by cutting timber on the land of the prosecutrix without her consent. The evidence for the State amply authorized the verdict. No evidence was offered by the.accused, but he made a statement to the jury, in which he admitted cutting the timber, but claimed that he did so with the consent of the prosecutrix and under a verbal contract with her. The jury evidently rejected his statement, and believed the testimony of the prosecutrix and the other-witnesses for the State. The overruling of the motion for new trial, embracing the general grounds only, was not error.
Judgment affirmed.
MacIntyre and Gardner, JJ., concur.