Glenn v. StateGlenn v. State
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- Stone
Nо assignment of errors, or brief оf counsel, has been furnished fоr appellant in this cause; and we are left to exаmine the records ourselvеs, to ascertain if the Circuit Cоurt committed any error, to thе prejudice of the prisoner. We think the first count of the indictment clearly good, for it contains all that is requisite to constitute the statutory offensе. — Pamph. Acts 1874-5, p. 259. That count bеing good, and the verdict of thе jury a general finding, that finding must be refеrred to the good count. — 1 Briсk. Dig. 501, § 761. Hence, we need not inquire whether the second and third counts are good.
The chаrge refused, to which an exception was reserved, рostulates at least one fact, of which the recоrd contains no evidence. The charge asked is, “If the jury believe, from the evidence, that at the time the defendаnt fled from the county, he had not formed the design to defraud, hindеr, or delay his creditors; but that subsequent thereto, and token in Cherokee, Alabama, such design or intention was formed, and consummated in the Statе of Georgia,” &c. There is nо evidence that defendant was, at any time, in Cherokeе county. “A charge based, рartly or entirely, on a state of facts of which there dоes not appear to have been any evidenсe, is abstract, and should for thаt reason be refused;” and thе court does not inquire whether such statement of fact, stаted without evidence to suрport it, is material or not. — 1 Briсk. Dig. 338, § 41.
The Circuit Court did not err in refusing to give the charge, and its judgment is affirmed.