Moore v. State

Smith, O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to penitentiary for life.

The deceased was shot at night through a window of her house. No one saw the person who fired the shot, the evidence as to who did so being wholly circumstantial; consequently in order for the appellant to be convicted the evidence must exclude every reasonable hypothesis other that that of his guilt. A finding that the appellant shot the deceased must rest, in the last analysis, on the testimony of Rufus Peeler and inferences draw therefrom in the light of the other…