Case ID: ga-app_36/html/0584-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

17798.
    Arnold v. The State.
    Decided March 8, 1927.
    Possessing intoxicating liquor; from Terrell superior court— Judge Yeomans. November 20, 1926.
    
      E. A. Wilkinson, for plaintiff in error.
    
      B. T. Castellow, solicitor-general, R. R. Arnold, E. C. Hill, contra.
    Criminal Law, 16 O. J. p. 1008, n. 4; 17 C. J. p. 352, n. 48.
   Broyles, C. J.

The evidence connecting the accused with the offense charged was wholly circumstantial, and, therefore, the failure of the trial judge to instruct the jury upon the law of circumstantial evidence was reversible error.

Judgment reversed.

Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., concur.