People v. . Johnson

The death, and the violence which caused it, alleged in the indictment, were proved in this case by direct evidence as the law now requires, and were put beyond controversy by the finding of the dead body, with the marks of murder upon it. But the guilt of the prisoner as the perpetrator of the crime was established, as it may be, by evidence wholly circumstantial in its character. It is assailed on this appeal as being equivocal, and inconclusive, consistent with a possibility of innocence, and not strong enough to justify the verdict founded upon it. We have read it and reflected upon it…