Case ID: ga-app_55/html/0287-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

26090.
    Smith v. The State.
    Decided February 23, 1937.
    
      West L. Cranford, J. G. Cranford, for plaintiff in error.
    
      George R. Lilly, solicitor-general, F. J. Glower, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

The evidence tending to connect the defendant with the offense of simple larceny (hog-stealing) was wholly circumstantial, and, while raising a strong suspicion of his guilt, was insufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis. It follows that the court erred in refusing to grant a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

MacIntyre and Guerry, JJ., concur.