Case ID: ga-l-rep_1/html/0412-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blandford, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lee vs. State.
    Murder, from Marion. Criminal Law. Verdict. (Before Judge Wiilis.)
    J. S. McCorkle; Miller & Butt; Willis & Mathews, for plaintiff in error.
    Clifford Anderson, attorney general, by J. H. Lumpkin; Thos. \V-Grimes, solicitor general, by J. M. McNeill, for the state.
   Blandford, J.

1. In a criminal case the corpus delicti should be established beyond a reasonable doubt, or á conviction should not be had.

2. In this case the evidence was not sufficient to show that the child, for whose murder the defendant was indicted, came to its death •at the defendant’s hands.

Judgment reversed.