Abdallah v. State

1. The evidence, though circumstantial, was sufficient to establish the corpus delicti (Westbrook v. State, 91 Ga. 11 (16 S. E. 100); Allen v. State, 91 Ga. 189 (16 S. E. 980); Dixon v. State, 11 Ga. App. 367 (75 S. E. 266); Rice v. State, 16 Ga. App. 128 (84 S. E. 609) ; Wade v. State, 16 Ga. App. 163 (84 S. E. 593) ), and showed a motive on the part of the defendant to commit the crime of arson, and was sufficient to connect him therewith and to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of his guilt.

2. The discretion of a trial judge in refusing a new trial on the ground of newly…