Court Opinion

ID: 5613882
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 04:10:36.295837+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:37:11.547844
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Bloodworth, J.
The plaintiffs in error in the above-stated cases were jointly indicted and jointly tried, but the cases are in this court on separate bills of exceptions. In neither case is the evidence sufficient to support a verdict of guilty, and the judge erred in overruling the motions for new trial, and the judgment in each ease is

Reversed.

Broyles, C. J., and Luke, J., concur.
In Green’s statement at the trial he said that he had been running a dray at College Park, and bought the truck for the purpose of hauling with it, and that Landrum and Turner asked him if he did not want to make a trip below Newnan with them with his truck; that he agreed to do so' if he could get Jones to drive for him; that he and Jones met them on the road that night; that when they arrived in Newnan he and Jones stopped there and bought sandwiches and coca-cola, and when they caught up with the automobile in which the others were riding, the others asked why they stopped, and said “they will know the truck;” that he said to them that he did not see anything crooked about stopping at a restaurant, and one of the other men said, “You wouldn’t haul anything crooked in your car, anj'thing like liquor; ” that he said he would not do it, and the others said, “ All right,” and drove on; that he and Jones turned back and went on home, and did not see the others again before they reached home; that when the others employed him, they did not say what they wanted to haul, but-asked if he would make a trip. The statement of Jones at the trial was to the same effect.
It was testified that the burglary took place in May, and that about three months later some of the stolen goods were found in woods back of Tanner’s house, and that Green and Jones lived near Tanner; that among the goods stolen and recovered were a number of knives of a certain kind; that no stolen goods were found on the premises of Green or Jones; that a knife was taken from Jones, which he said he had found in the road, and which one of the witnesses testified was picked up in the road by Jones in his presence in July; and Camp, president of the H. W. Camp Company, testified that a knife exhibited to him by counsel was of the same pattern and a duplicate of knives in the company’s storehouse at the time of the burglary, but he could not say that “this particular knife” was taken, and did not know whether any of that particular pattern was stolen or not. Witnesses for the defendant testified that they saw Green and Jones going homeward in a truck about three o’clock in the morning on the date as to which the other witnesses had testified, and that there was nothing in the truck. One of these witnesses testified that they passed his home in Campbell county at that time. Several witnesses testified as to the good character of Green and Jones.
P. H. Brewster Jr., G. H. Cornwell, for plaintiffs in error.
W. Y. Atkinson, solicitor-general, contra.