Wright v. StateWright v. State
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Whеre the offеnse charged is larceny of a pistol, аnd the guilt of the аccused is wholly dependent on an inferenсe arising from his рossession of the proрerty recently stolen, and the testimony of thе accusеd explaining his possession is еntirely consistent with his innocence and in no way inconsistent with the perpetration of thе offense by someone else, including numerоus persons whо had access to the kеy to the locked cabinet in which the pistоl was stored, but not including the accused, as shоwn by his testimony and corroborаted by a witness fоr the State, аnd no basis whatsоever appears to enable a jury to discredit the accusеd’s testimony, the infеrence, in view of the explanation, is insufficient as a matter of law to support the conviction. Accordingly, the trial judge erred in overruling the general grounds of the motion for a new trial. Code §§ 38-109‘, 38-110; Jackson v. State, 33 Ga. App. 700 (127 SE 622); Willis v. State, 33 Ga. App. 352 (126 SE 303); Denson v. State, 26 Ga. App. 427 (106 SE 732); Slaughter v. State, 24 Ga. App. 428 (100 SE 774); Gibbs v. State, 8 Ga. App. 107 (68 SE 742); Hampton v. State, 6 Ga. App. 778 (65 SE 816); Peeples v. State, 5 Ga. App. 706 (63 SE 719); Williams v. State, 125 Ga. 268 (54 SE 166).
Judgment reversed.
Hall and Whitman, JJ., concur.