State v. Dennis

The first assignment of error relates to the denial of defendant’s motion for a directed verdict. There was no eyewitness to the killing and the State’s case, therefore, stands upon circumstantial evidence. The rules concerning the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence are well established in this jurisdiction, and the innumerable citations from other states were unnecessary. Those rules may be stated as follows: The direct evidence of eyewitnesses is not necessary for conviction. The fact that a crime has been committed (the corpus delicti), and that it was done by the defendant, may b.e…