Legal Opinion

Summerlin v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided January 20, 1964No. 40495PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Nichols, Presiding Judge.

1. “In criminal cases the corpus delicti, the identity of the stolen property, and the accused’s connection with the commission of the crime, may all be established by circumstantial evidence where such evidence is sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused, Wiggins v. State, 80 Ga. App. 213 (55 SE2d 821), Edwards v. State, 24 Ga. App. 653 (101 SE 766, McCrary v. State, 20 Ga. App. 194 (92 SE 954); and while no one of the circumstances of a case may be sufficient to prove the guilt of the accused, yet all of them…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Worley v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1955
  2. Rogers v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1949
  3. Edwards v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1920
  4. Goldwire v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1937
  5. McCrary v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1917

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Myerholtz v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1964
  2. Anderson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1969
  3. Ward v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1974

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