Woodruff v. State

Hall, Justice.

This is an appeal from an armed robbery conviction in which the state’s evidence against Woodruff was entirely circumstantial. He argues that the evidence was inadequate to "exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused,” as required by Code § 38-109. We disagree, and affirm.

The state’s evidence tended to show that the victims, two aged sisters, lived in a rural area near a dirt road, and that shortly before the robbery they saw a late model green automobile go past their house with three men inside. Somewhat later, two men subsequently…