DocketNumber： 44037
Citation Numbers： 166 S.E.2d 438, 119 Ga. App. 114, 1969 Ga. App. LEXIS 1003
Judges： Eberhaedt, Felton, Whitman
Filed Date： 1/29/1969
Status： Precedential
Modified Date： 10/19/2024
Court of Appeals of Georgia.
Rogers, Magruder & Hoyt, J. Clinton Sumner, Jr., for appellants.
Robert G. Walther, Solicitor General, for appellee.
EBERHARDT, Judge.
1. There is no statutory authority for the direction of a verdict in a criminal case; consequently, enumeration of error on a refusal to direct a verdict of not guilty does not show error. Pritchard v. State, 224 Ga. 776, 779 (2) (164 SE2d 808).
2. The evidence, direct and circumstantial, fails to prove venue, which must be done in every criminal case. Smith v. State, 118 Ga. 83 (1) (44 S.E. 827). It may be done by circumstantial evidence (Dickerson v. State, 186 Ga. 557, 559 (199 S.E. 142)), and slight evidence is sufficient where there is no conflict. Well v. State, 210 Ga. 422 (2) (80 SE2d 153). But there must be enough to authorize the jury to find that stolen goods were received in the county wherein the indictment charges that the crime was committed. Anderson v. State, 113 Ga. App. 670 (3) (149 SE2d 398). A careful *115 sifting of the evidence in this record fails to disclose any evidence, even circumstantial, placing the event in Floyd County. This was doubtless an oversight of the State's counsel, but the verdict is for that reason unsupported, and the judgment overruling the motion for new trial must be reversed, and the case remanded for a new trial.
Judgment reversed. Felton, C. J., and Whitman, J., concur.