Case ID: ga-app_12/html/0615-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

4644.
    Taylor v. The State.
    Decided April 16, 1913.
    Conviction of larceny from house; from Chatham superior court —Judge Charlton. November 14, 1912.
    
      Shelby Myrich, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Walter G. Eartridge, solicitor-general, contra.
   Hill, C. J.

Where a conviction depends entirely on circumstantial evidence, and where the circumstances, when most strongly construed against the accused, are only sufficient to raise a bare suspicion of his guilt, and especially where this suspicion has been removed by uncontradicted evidence, the verdict must be set aside as contrary to law.

Judgment reversed.