7 Ga. App. 335
Decided January 21, 1910
Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1910-01-21
Accusation of simple larceny; from city court of Eastman— Judge Graham presiding; November 23, 1909. Frazier was charged with having stolen $40 in.money, the property of H. J. Day. From the evidence it appeared that Day had $40 in his pocketbook, when he stopped his buggy in front of his son’s house and laid the pocketbook on his knee, to take out several coppers, which he gave to his daughter.
Decided 1910-01-21
¶11. The verdict is wholly without evidence to support it, the circumstances being hardly sufficient to raise a bare suspicion of the defendant’s guilt, much less to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of his innocence.
¶22. The special assignments of error are without merit.
¶3Judgment reversed.