Coleman v. State

1, 3. The rulings in the first and second head-notes are self-explanatory.

3. This court did not come readily to a conclusion as to the ruling in the third headnote, and we are impressed that perhaps-the record does not fully disclose all of the testimony adduced upon the trial. However, we must be controlled by the record; and in the consideration, on review, of testimony wholly circumstantial, the rule that such testimony will not authorize a verdict of guilty unless sufficient to exclude every other reasonable supposition than that the accused was the perpetrator of the offense must not be…