People v. Davis

Defendant was found guilty of grand larceny on circumstantial evidence.

Counsel for defendant requested the court to charge the jury as follows:—

“ The following principle of law is of universal application in all cases based on circumstantial evidence. It is not sufficient that the circumstances proved coincide with, account for, and therefore render probable, the hypothesis sought to be established, but the hypothesis contended for by the prosecution must be established to- an absolute moral certainty to the entire exclusion of any rational probability of any other hypothesis being true, or…