Overstreet v. State

The appellant was convicted of the crime of burglary. The evidence was wholly circumstantial. The appellant had no counsel.

The State was granted two instructions on the merits, which instructions required belief from the evidence of appellant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, but neither required that “the evidence must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis consistent with his innocence.” Warren v. State, 166 Miss. 284, 146 So. 449; *863Hardy v. State, 177 Miss. 727, 172 So. 131; Williams v. State, 220 Miss. 800, 72 So. 2d 147.

The State, by its instructions, was not required to meet its full…