Key v. State

Appeal from Lauderdale Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. C. P. Almon. Nat Key was convicted of burglary, and he- appeals. Tbe solicitor in bis argument stated that no one denied that defendant bad tbe bides and sold them to a white man in two or three weeks after tbe place was burglarized. Tbe following charges were refused to tbe defendant: A. “It is tbe humane provision of tbe law that upon circumstantial evidence there should not be a conviction unless to a moral certainty it excludes every other hypothesis but that of tbe guilt of tbe accused. No matter bow strong may be tbe circumstances,…