5 Ga. App. 228
Decided November 24, 1908
Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1908-11-24
Indictment for larceny from the house, from Spalding superior court — Judge Beagan. September 16, 1908.
Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 1922
2 state decisions
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Decided 1908-11-24
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¶1The circumstantial evidence, which is consistent with the guilt of the accused, not being inconsistent with a reasonable hypothesis of his innocence, and being quite insufficient to establish, beyond a reasonable doubt, an intent to steal, a new trial should have been granted.
¶2Judgment reversed.