Case ID: ga_146/html/0619-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Vincent v. The State.
    March 13, 1917.
    Indictment for murder. Before Judge Brand. Oconee superior court. September 9, 1916.
    
      W olver M. Smith, Thomas & Thomas, and B. B. Burger, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Clifford Walker, attorney-general, John B. Cambie, solicitor-general, and Mark Bolding, contra.
   Hill, J.

1. Where the State offers direct and circumstantial evidence that the defendant committed the crime, and where one of the contentions of the defendant is that another person committed the crime, and he offers circumstantial evidence tending to support such contention, it is not error to omit to charge on the rule respecting circumstantial evidence.

2. The evidence supports the verdict.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except Fish, G. J., absent.