Aiken v. State

The only witness who actually saw the burglar when the crime was committed was unable to identify the accused as the criminal, and testified only that the burglar was a negro man of the same size, color, and general description as the accused. Even conceding that the evidence showed that on the night of the crime and after its perpetration a track-dog was placed upon the trail of the perpetrator and followed the trail to the house occupied by the accused, the evidence disclosed that the dog was not permitted to enter the'house and did not follow the trail to the bed then occupied by the…