Bowen v. State

The defendant was tiled an'd convicted under an accusation in the City Court of Gwinnett County for the illegal possession of intoxicating whisky in that county. His motion for a new trial, based on the usual general grounds and three special grounds, was overruled, and he has brought the present writ of error to this court to review that judgment.

1. Where the State relies for a conviction on circumstantial evidence alone, the facts proved must not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused. Code §…