Case ID: ga-app_61/html/0624-01.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

28086.
    Thompson v. The State.
    Decided February 5, 1940.
    W. B. Robinson, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. H. Paschall, solicitor-general, contra.
   Broyles, C. J.

The accused was convicted of the offense of fornication and adultery. The evidence tending to connect her with such a crime was wholly circumstantial, and, while raising a strong suspicion of her . guilt, was not sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis. The verdict was unauthorized, and the refusal' to grant a new trial was error.

Judgment reversed.

MacIntyre and Guerry, JJ., concur.