Case ID: ga-app_16/html/0736-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Russell, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

6273.
    Davis et al. v. The State.
    Decided September 2, 1915.
    Accusation of keeping liquor, etc.; from city court of Houston county — Judge Eiley. November 30, 1914.
    
      G. L. Shepard, for plaintiffs in error.
    
      B. B. Brown, solicitor, contra.
   Russell, C. J.

The majority of the court are of the opinion that the evience fully authorized the conviction of both of the defendants, and that the trial was free from error. So far as the defendant Amos Davis is concerned, I concur in this judgment, though with some doubt as to the sufficiency of the testimony. As to the defendant Starke, it is my opinion that the evidence (being entirely circumstantial) was by no means legally sufficient to have warranted a jury in finding, to the exclusion of any other reasonable hypothesis, that the accused was guilty.

Judgment affirmed.

Russell, C. J., dissents as to the defendant Claude Starke.