Case ID: ga-app_17/html/0316-01.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

6350.
    Williams v. The State.
    Decided October 29, 1915.
    Indictment for arson; from Liberty superior court — Judge Larsen. December 28, 1914.
    
      O. C. Darsey, for plaintiff in error.
    
      W. F. Slater, solicitor-general, contra.
   Russell, C. J.

The ruling in this ease is controlled by the decisions of the Supreme Court in the cases of Ross v. State, 109 Ga. 517 (35 S. E. 102), and Green v. State, 111 Ga. 139 (36 S. E. 609). The law does not permit any one to be convicted upon mere suspicion. The evidence being entirely circumstantial and not being sufficient to connect the accused in any way with the burning, the verdict of guilty was contrary to law, and the court erred in refusing to grant a new trial.

Judgment reversed.