Fuller v. State

The defendant may be guilty, but his guilt was not legally established. The burden of establishing his guilt devolves upon the State, and if he be guilty the fact can be shown, as it must be, by sufficient evidence. The evidence, as it appears in the record, not being sufficient to authorize a conviction of the violation of the labor act of 1903, we feel it to be our duty to grant a new trial. The learned trial judge erred in overruling the defendant’s motion for a new trial, for the reason that the verdict, so far as the evidence is concerned, is contrary to law. The only facts shown by the…