Beasley v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of simple larceny. The charge was the theft of some seed-cotton. The sole contention of his counsel here is that the verdict is contrary to law, for the reason that the evidence upon which the. verdict is based is purely circumstantial, and is not sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis than that of the guilt of the accused. It is insisted that there is unimpeached evidence that the cotton identified by circumstances alone as stolen was not in fact the property actually stolen. We can not hold that. the jury were required to believe the…