Case Name: Johnson vs. The State of Georgia
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1886-04-20
Citations: 77 Ga. 68
Docket Number: 
Parties: Johnson vs. The State of Georgia.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 77
Pages: 68–69

Head Matter:
Johnson vs. The State of Georgia.
Where, on the trial of an indictment for hog-stealing, the evidence showed that the prosecutor lost several hogs which had been marked; that he found them in the defendant’s pen near his house; that they had been re-marked, and an attempt made to entirely obliterate the marks of the prosecutor, though some of his marks remained, and they were identified as belonging to the prosecutor, a verdict of guilty was supported by the evidence.
April 20, 1886.
Criminal Law. Hog-stealing. Before Judge Brown. Cobb Superior Court. November Term, 1885.
Reported in the decision.
Phillips & Sessions; Geo. S. Thomas, for plaintiff in error.
Geo. E. Gober, solicitor general, for the state.

Opinion:
Blandford, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried and convicted of the offense of hog-stealing. He moved the court for a new trial upon the round that the verdict is contrary to law and evidence. This motion was denied by the court, and defendant excepted to the refusal by the court to grant a new trial, and this is the error assigned.
The evidence shows that the prosecutor lost several hogs which had been marked; he found them in a pen near the house of the accused; they had been re-marked and an attempt made to entirely obliterate the mark of the prosecutor, though some of his marks remained. The hogs were identified by their flesh-marks, as well as the ear-marks, as belonging to the prosecutor. This evidence is sufficient to sustain this verdict.
Justice has been administered in this case according to law.
Judgment affirmed.