Case ID: ga-app_7/html/0607-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

2462.
    Bush v. The State.
    Accusation of larceny; from city court of Dublin — Judge Hawkins. January 15, 1910.
    Submitted March 9,- —
    Decided April 6, 1910.
    
      H. P. Howard, T. E. Hightower, for plaintiff in error.
    
      W. C. Davis, solicitor, contra.
   Powell, J.

Wliere the conviction in a criminal case rests solely on circumstantial evidence, the testimony must he such as to raise more than a hare suspicion of the defendant’s guilt; otherwise it is, as a matter of law, insufficient to support the verdict. Cf. Ga. Ry. & El. Co. v. Harris, 1 Ga. App. 714 (57 S. E. 1076). Judgment reversed.