Cantrell v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Charles T. Cantrell was convicted of theft by taking and sentenced to serve ten years. He enumerates as error the denial of his motion for new trial on two grounds: (1) that guilt being predicated upon circumstantial evidence, the evidence does not exclude every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt; and (2) that it was error to charge upon the theory of conspiracy, the evidence only showing Cantrell’s mere presence at the scene. Held:

The evidence shows that three young women entered an apparel store and started looking at certain leather jackets. They were dressed in…