Freeman v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) It does not appear that the three pieces of evidence upon which the State relies are sufficient, either separately or in connection with each other, to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused. As to the first, the police officers saw two men come out of the house with bottles in their possession, and saw the defendant talking “to some of them”; but they testified that they did not know what was in the bottles, and in any event they did not testify that the defendant, who was on the porch, gave them the bottles. As to the…