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38 Ga. App. 692

Whitehead v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided November 13, 1928

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1928-11-13

Relies on Yonce v. State · 29 Ga. App. 222 - Flint v. State · 36 Ga. App. 264 - Jones v. State

Decided 1928-11-13

Broyles, 0. J.

¶1In the opinion of the majority of this court the evidence (which was wholly circumstantial) was insufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused, and the refusal to grant a new trial was error. The writer thinks that the evidence was sufficient to authorize the jury to find that it excluded every reasonable hypothesis except that of the defendant’s guilt. See, in this connection, Yonce v. State, 154 Ga. 419 (114 S. E. 325); Flint v. State, 29 Ga. App. 222 (114 S. E. 585); Jones v. State, 36 Ga. App. 264 (136 S. E. 542).

¶2Judgment reversed.

Luke and Bloodioorth, JJ., concur. Broyles, O. J., dissents.Shackleford, Shackleford & Davis, Wolver M. Smith, for plaintiff in error

¶3cited Ga. App. Rep.: 2/534; 7/607; 14/598; 16/291, 293-4; 25/242, 258; 27/581, 601, 603; 28/347, 363; 29/24.

Pemberton Cooley, solicitor-general, contra,

¶4cited Ga. App. Rep.: 29/173, 222; 35/581; 36/364(2); 154 Ga. 419.

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