Case ID: ga-app_19/html/0752-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

8328.
    Dowdell v. The State.
    Decided April 24, 1917.
    Indictment for' larceny; from city court of Americus—Judge Harper. October 23, 1916.
    
      8hipp & Sheppard, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John A. Fort, solicitor-general, -Zach Childers, solicitor, contra.
   Luke, J.

The conviction being dependent on circumstantial evidence, and the evidence not being sufficient to identify the corn found in the defendant’s possession as the corn alleged to have been stolen, and to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis than that of his guilt, the verdict was unauthorized, and the court erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

Wade, G. J., and George, J., concur.