Case ID: ga_147/html/0134-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gilbert, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Henderson v. The State.
    No. 152.
    June 14, 1917.
    Indictment for murder/ Before Judge Worrill.' Randolph superior court. January 20, 1917.
    , J. W. Harris, P. C. King, and- G. H. Perry, for plaintiff in error. Clifford Walher, attorney-general, B. T. Castellow, - solicitor-general, R. R, Arnold, and M. C. Bennet, contra. • ■
   Gilbert, J.

1. The court did not err, as complained in the amended ‘ motion, in regard to the admission of evidence.

2. The verdict in this case is dependent entirely' on circumstantial - evi- : ■ dence. The proved facts are consistent with innocence, and are insufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused. Suspicion of guilt will not authorize a conviction. Penal Code (1910), §1010; Williams v. State, 113 Ga. 721 (39 S. E. 487). It was error to refuse a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur.