Case Name: Knox v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1892-05-02
Citations: 89 Ga. 259
Docket Number: 
Parties: Knox v. The State.
Judges: By two Justices.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 89
Pages: 259–260

Head Matter:
Knox v. The State.
"When duly pleaded, an acquittal upon an accusation charging the accused with the larceny of five chickens, the property of Mrs. M. A. Gussupp, is a bar to a trial and conviction upon a subsequent accusation charging him with the same larceny of the same chickens as the property of Mrs. M. A. Gossetts, the two accusations corresponding in all respects save as to the name of the person in whom the ownership of the chickens was laid. Knight v. The State, 73 Ga. 804; Goode v. The State, 70 Ga. 752; Buhler v. The Stale, 64 Ga. 504. The case of Blair v. The State, 81 Ga. 629, is a less direct authority than the foregoing, on the question now ruled, and seems to involve no necessary conflict with those cases.
May 2, 1892.
By two Justices.

Opinion:
Judgment reversed.
Criminal law. Former acquittal. Before Judge Westmoreland. Criminal court of Atlanta. September term, 1891.
Indictment for larceny; plea of former acquittal. The evidence in support of the plea showed, that at the same term and before a legally empanelled j ury the defendant was tried and acquitted upon a sufficient accusation setting forth the same charge as that in the present case, the only difference between the two accusations being, that in the former case the ownership of the stolen property was laid in Mrs. M. A. Gussupp, while in the present case it is laid in Mrs. M. A. Gossetts. After verdict of acquittal in the first case, the State submitted the present accusation for the same theft. The issue made by the plea of former acquittal was submitted to the judge. He found against it, to which ruling the defendant excepted, having been adjudged guilty.
F, R. & J. G. Walker, for plaintiff in error.
Lewis W. Thomas, solicitor, contra.