Ward v. State

Hutcheson, Justice.

1. It is only where the evidence is entirely circumstantial that the court is required, without request, to charge the jury on the law of circumstantial evidence. Brannon v. State, 140 Ga. 787 (7) (80 S. E. 7). There being direct evidence in the present case on all the essential elements of the crime charged, the failure of the court to charge the jury on the law of circumstantial evidence does not furnish cause for the grant of a new trial. Wilson v. State, 152 Ga. 337 (110 S. E. 8); Long v. State, 175 Ga. 274 (165 S. E. 75); Harris v. State, 178 Ga. 746 (174 S. E. 240).

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