Case ID: ga-app_34/html/0238-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bboyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

16625.
    Buckner v. The State.
    Decided July 29, 1925.
    Conviction of ear-breaking; from Whitfield superior court-judge Tarver. June 1, 1925.
    
      William E. & W. Gordon Mann, for plaintiff in error.
    
      G. G. Pittman, solicitor-general, contra.
   Bboyles, C. J.

The defendant was convicted of the offense of car-breaking. The evidence tending to connect him with the crime was wholly circumstantial and was insufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of his guilt. The court, therefore, erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., concur.