Shields v. State

The defendant, under the undisputed evidence in this case, was clearly entitled to the general affirmative charge, and it was error to a reversal for the court to refuse it. It would be unconscionable to permit a judgment of guilt to stand where the judgment is based upon such evidence as adduced upon this trial. Admitting as being true every statement made by the witnesses for the state, there is an absolute lack of evidence to connect the defendant therewith. In other words, if the evidence discloses that a crime had been committed, aside from the fact that said offense was perpetrated in…