Case Name: NIX v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1921-12-13
Citations: 27 Ga. App. 780
Docket Number: 12982
Parties: NIX v. THE STATE.
Judges: Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 27
Pages: 780–781

Head Matter:
12982.
NIX v. THE STATE.
Failure to charge the jury on the law of circumstantial evidence, without request, is not cause for a new trial, where a conviction of the accused is not wholly dependent on such evidence.
Decided December 13, 1921.
Indictment for felony; from Floyd superior court — Judge Wright. October 11, 1921.
Porter & Mebane, for plaintiff in error.
S. Taylor, solicitor-general, J. F. Kelly, contra.

Opinion:
Luke, J.
The defendant was charged with breaking and entering a railroad-ear with intent to steal goods and freight therein contained. He assigns error upon the grounds that the evidence did not authorize his conviction, and that the court erred in failing to charge the jury, without request, the law with reference to circumstantial evidence. There is evidence to authorize the defendant's conviction, and his' conviction was not wholly dependent upon circumstantial evidence. This being true, as has been repeatedly held by the Supreme Court and this court, it was not reversible error to fail to charge the jury upon the law of circumstantial evidence. The verdict having the approval of the trial judge, and there being no harmful error shown, it was not error to overrule the motion for a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.
Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.