State v. . Minton

The defendant places his chief emphasis in this Court upon his exceptions to the refusal of the trial court to grant his motion for judgment of nonsuit made when the State rested its case and renewed after all the evidence was concluded.

The State relies entirely upon circumstantial evidence. It is an established principle in the administration of criminal law that circumstantial evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction unless the circumstantial facts shown on the hearing are “of such a nature and so connected or related as to point unerringly to the defendant’s guilt and exclude any…