11 Ga. App. 797
Decided November 12, 1912
Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1912-11-12
Conviction of living in a state of fornication; from-.city court of Valdosta — Judge Cranford. August 27, 1912. From the evidence it appeared, that in the house in which the accused — a white man — was residing, Malinda Solomon, an unmarried mulatto girl, between seventeen and eighteen years of age, employed as his cook and house servant, lived, with her two children, and there was no Other occupant of the house.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently April 1916
1 state decisions
Relies on Winkles v. State · Moore v. State · 5 Ga. App. 7 - Thompson v. State
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Decided 1912-11-12
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¶1The evidence in support of the verdict was entirely circumstantial, and, weighed most strongly against the accused, raised only a bare suspicion of his guilt, and was consistent with his innocence. The verdict was therefore unauthorized by law. Winkles v. State, 4 Ga. App. 559 (61 S. E. 1128) ; Thompson v. State, 5 Ga. App. 7 (62 S. E. 571); Moore v. State, 8 Ga. App. 113 (68 S. E. 616).
¶2Judgment reversed.