Smith v. State
Smith v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
One of the instructions granted in the court below, at the request of the state, is as follows: “The court instructs the jury, for the state, that a person may be proved to be a common prostitute by circumstances, and
• The judgment heretofore entered, therefore, is set aside, the judgment of the court below reversed, and the-cause remanded. Reversed and remanded,
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- Anna Smith v. State
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- Criminal Law. Circumstantial evidence. Instructions. An instruction for the state that a person can he convicted oí a crime or misdemeanor on circumstantial evidence is fatally erroneous, where it omits the necessary qualification that such circumstantial evidence, must he sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis than that of guilt.