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18 Ga. App. 44

Jordan v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided May 1, 1916

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1916-05-01

<p>Certiorari; from Morgan superior court — Judge Park. August 14, 1915.</p>

Decided 1916-05-01

Russell, C. J.

¶11. The corpus delicti of the alleged larceny was fully established. The incriminating circumstances in proof were sufficient to fulfil the requirements of the rule embodied in § 1010 of the Penal Code, which demands that where the guilt of one accused of crime depends wholly on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts must exclude every *45other reasonable hypothesis than that of the defendant’s guilt. The credibility of the testimony adduced in support of the alibi being a matter exclusively for the jury, it can not be said that the conviction was contrary to the evidence or without evidence to support it.

Decided May 1, 1916. Certiorari; from Morgan superior court — Judge Park. August 14, 1915. M. G. Few, for plaintiff in error. J. F. Pottle, solicitor-general, contra.

¶22. There was no error in overruling the .petition for certiorari.

¶3 Judgment affirmed.

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