Wiggins v. State

The first special ground of the amended motion for new trial, assigning error on the failure of the court to charge on circumstantial evidence, is considered in connection with the general grounds. Ordinarily, whisky found in old containers on the premises of a person charged with possessing whisky would not be sufficient to support a verdict of guilty *67where the quantity in the containers is of such infinitesimal amount as to indicate lack of knowledge of its presence on the part of the defendant on the one hand, and on the other hand to indicate his intention only to possess the container…