Wright v. State

Beix, Chief Justice.

1. Both the corpus delicti and the perpetration of the alleged offense by the accused may be shown by circumstantial as well as direct evidence. In the instant case, the evidence was sufficient to establish both elements with respect to the crime of murder as charged in the indictment. Jester v. State, 193 Ga. 202 (17 S. E. 2d, 736).

2. It appearing from the evidence that the person alleged to have been killed was an infant child of the defendant’s wife’s sister, and that the defendant and his wife had a child of about the same age, evidence that the defendant after being…