Legal Opinion

Worley v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided March 17, 1955No. 35592PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtCarlisle, J.

1. In criminal cases the corpus delicti, the identity of the stolen property, and the accused’s connection with the commission of the crime, may all be established by circumstantial evidence where such evidence is sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused (Wiggins v. State, 80 Ga. App. 213, 55 S. E. 2d 821; Edwards v. State, 24 Ga. App. 653, 101 S. E. 766; McCrary v. State, 20 Ga. App. 194, 92 S. E. 954); and while no one of the circumstances of a case may be sufficient to prove the guilt of the accused, yet all of them taken together may…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Rogers v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1949
  2. Edwards v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1920
  3. McCrary v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1917
  4. Wiggins v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1949

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Bell v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1959
  2. Walden v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1970
  3. Rewis v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1964
  4. Norman v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1970
  5. Mealor v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1975

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