Pound v. State

Bell., Justice.

1. The trial judge charged the jury as follows: “Where the ease depends for a conviction on circumstantial evidence, as it does in this case, before there can be a conviction the evidence must be so strong as to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused, and must also be inconsistent with his innocence.’' This charge, though not in the identical language of Penal Code (1910), § 1010, relative to circumstantial evidence, was a substantial, and therefore a sufficient, statement of the provisions of that section. Thompson v. State, 100 Ga. 512…