Tatum v. State

The defendant insists and bases his principal grounds for reversal upon the action of the trial court in refusing to give at his request charges 1 and 2. These charges are exact copies of charges 17 and 23, held by us to be correct statements of the law in McKenzie v. State (Ala. App.) 97 South. 155. 1 The principle of law embraced in the foregoing charges is here challenged by the state.

There is a distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence. In the case of direct proof the truth rests upon our faith in human veracity, sustained by experience. In the case of circumstantial…