Case ID: ga-app_32/html/0429-01.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

15509.
    Guyton v. The State.
    Accusation of gaming; from city court of Baxley — Judge Speer. March 8, 1924.
    
      J. B. Moore, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Wade E. Watson, solicitor-general, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

Tlie evidence tending to establish the conviction of the defendant being wholly circumstantial, the failure of the ■ judge to instruct the jury upon the law of circumstantial evidence, even in the absence of a timely and appropriate written request, was error requiring the grant of a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., eoneur.