Case ID: ga-app_27/html/0801-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

12964.
    Avery v. The State.
    Decided December 14, 1921.
    Indictment for manufacture of liquor; from Pulaski superior court — Judge Graham. September 13, 1921.
    
      H. E. Coates, Jere M. Moore, for plaintiff in error.
    
      M. H. Boyer, solicitor-general, contra.
   Luke, J.

Although the evidence raises a strong suspicion of guilt, it is not sufficient'to exclude every other hypothesis than that of the guilt of the defendant. It was error to overrule the motion for a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.