Georgia Court of Appeals, 1938

Aikens v. State

Aikens v. State
Georgia Court of Appeals · Decided March 17, 1938 · MacIntyre
57 Ga. App. 535; 196 S.E. 263; 1938 Ga. App. LEXIS 331

Aikens v. State

Opinion of the Court

MacIntyre, J.

The special grounds of the motion for new trial are abandoned in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error. The evidence, while circumstantial, was sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis, save the guilt of the accused. Whittemore v. State, 36 Ga. App. 299 (136 S. E. 806); Lamb v. State, 36 Ga. App. 306 (136 S. E. 306); Wynn v. State, 38 Ga. App. 262 (143 S. E. 599); Williams v. State, 41 Ga. App. 351 (152 S. E. 911); Johnson v. State, 41 Ga. App. 327 (152 S. E. 920); Craig v. State, 41 Ga. App. 225 (152 S. E. 494); Cook v. State, 33 Ga. App. 571 (2) (127 S. E. 156); Hale v. State, 50 *536Ga. App. 99 (176 S. E. 919). The case of Wright v. State, 48 Ga. App. 302 (172 S. E. 687), is differentiated on. its facts from the present case.

Decided March 17, 1938.

Judgment affii-med.

Broyles, O. J., and Guerry, J., concur. J. W. lennard, O. L. Harris, for plaintiff in error. Allan 0. Garden, solicitor-general, contra.

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