Eason v. State

Quillian, Justice.

The bill of exceptions excepted to the trial judge’s overruling the defendant’s amended motion for new trial. However, the case was not argued orally in this court, and the only ground of the motion for new trial discussed in the defendant’s brief is that “the verdict was without evidence to support it.” Under the familiar rule of appellate practice all other grounds of the motion will be treated as abandoned.

The defendant insists the evidence was entirely circumstantial and not sufficient to support the verdict because it fell short of excluding every reasonable hypothesis…