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40 Ga. 120

Shaw v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided December 15, 1869

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1869-12-15

Criminal Law. Larceny. New Trial. Before Judge Harrell. Randolph Superior Court. May Term, 1869. The bill of indictment charged Shaw and a negro, Paldo Stanley, with simple larceny, by unlawfully and with force and arms, on the 11th of November, 1868, in'said county, privately taking and carrying away a bag of cotton worth $125, of the personal goods of James F. Sealey. Shaw was tried alone.

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Decided 1869-12-15

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Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1946

4 state decisions

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Warner, J.

¶1The defendant was indicted as the actor or absolute perpetrator of the offence charged in the indictment, and the jury found him guilty of the offence charged in the second degree. *122This was error, as was ruled by this Court in Washington vs. The State, 36th Georgia Reports, 222.

¶2It was also error in the Court below in not allowing the witness, Sheridan, to relate all the facts to the jury as to how Paldo came by the money which was paid to the livery-stable man for the hire of the wagon and mules.

¶3Let the'judgment of the Court below be reversed, and a new trial be had.

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