Tate v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia
Tate v. State, 110 Ga. 310 (Ga. 1900)
35 S.E. 154; 1900 Ga. LEXIS 396
Lumpkin

Tate v. State

Opinion of the Court

Lumpkin, P. J.

While the evidence, which was entirely circumstantial, was consistent with the guilt of the accused and sufficient to raise a strong suspicion against him, it was also consistent with the hypothesis that lie was innocent, and did not establish t-lie charge made in the accusation with that degree of certainty which the law requires-in criminal cases.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.

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