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34 Ga. App. 699

Hampton v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided December 16, 1925

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1925-12-16

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 1928

3 state decisions

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Decided 1925-12-16

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Bloodworth, J.

¶1In each of these cases the conviction was dependent upon circumstantial evidence. In neither of them was the evidence sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt j>i the accused. The refusal to grant a new trial was error.

¶2Judgments reversed.

Broyles, O. J., and Luke, J., concur.M. C. Few, for plaintiff in error.Joseph B. Dulce, solicitor-general, contra.
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