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113 Ga. 700

Stiles v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided July 17, 1901

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1901-07-17

Indictment for larceny. Before Judge Hart. Putnam superior court. April 15, 1901. Upon the trial of the plaintiff in error for stealing two bales of cotton, the testimony tended to prove the corpus delicti, the tracing of wagon-tracks from where the cotton was stolen to the premises of the accused, and the finding of the two bales, identified as the stolen ones, in an outhouse near the dwelling of the accused, where they were • covered with loose cotton.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1968

3 state decisions

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Decided 1901-07-17

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Little, J.

¶11. Whether the evidence for the State was overcome by that introduced in behalf of the accused, and whether the alibi sought to be proved was sufficiently made out, were questions properly left to the jury, which determined them adversely to the plaintiff in error ; and their finding being authorized by the evidence, the verdict will not be disturbed.

¶22. There was no error in the admission of the diagram, preliminary proof of its correctness having been made. It will not .be presumed that the jury undertook to decipher words thereon which the court directed to be erased, .and which, so far as appears, would not thereafter, on inspection, be readily deciphered.

¶38. The words “cotton press,” written on the diagram as descriptive of an appliance located at a particular place thereon, did not render the diagram inadmissible in evidence, when the draughtsman as a witness testified that it was correct, and in his evidence described the appliance as a cotton press.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.Allen & Pottle, Howard, & Crawford, and W. F. Jenkins & Son, for plaintiff in error.H. G. Lewis, solicitor-general, and J. B. Park Jr., contra.
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