Case ID: ga_110/html/0310-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lumpkin, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tate v. The State.
    Submitted February 5,
    Decided February 26, 1900.
    Accusation of buying and receiving stolen goods. Before Judge Calhoun. Criminal court of Atlanta. December term, 1899.
    
      S. C. Crane and J. L. Cobb, for plaintiff in error.
    
      James F. O’Neill, solicitor, contra.
   Lumpkin, P. J.

While the evidence, which was entirely circumstantial, was consistent with the guilt of the accused and sufficient to raise a strong suspicion against him, it was also consistent with the hypothesis that lie was innocent, and did not establish t-lie charge made in the accusation with that degree of certainty which the law requires-in criminal cases.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.