Case Name: Hines v. The State
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1909-01-27
Citations: 5 Ga. App. 491
Docket Number: 1560
Parties: Hines v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 491–491

Head Matter:
1560.
Hines v. The State.
Accusation of larceny, from city court of Sandersville — Judge' Jordan. November 27, 1908.
Submitted January 14,
Decided January 27, 1909.
Hines was convicted under an accusation charging him with the larceny of a set of single buggy harness, the property of G. H. Wood. At the trial Wood testified: “About the -5th day of September, this year, I lost a set of single buggy harness. Those harness were in my buggy house. . . The harness were -mine and •were taken from my buggy house in Washington, Georgia. . . I have never found these harness.” The witness further testified,, that the accused admitted that “he stole the harness, and said he-gave them to another boy, by the name of Bethea, to sell for him.”' The father of the accused told the witness that the accused had tlie harness. The remainder of the testimony related to the confession of the accused and the circumstances under which it was. made.
Evans & Evans, for plaintiff in error.
J. E. Hyman, solicitor, contra.

Opinion:
Russell, J.
The corpus delicti not being shown, the alleged confession (even if voluntarily made) was uncorroborated, and therefore was insufficient to authorize the conviction of the defendant.
Judgment reversed.