Wilkie v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.) None of the headnotes require elaboration, except the last. It is earnestly insisted by counsel for the defendant that the verdict is without evidence to support it. We are not prepared to say that this contention is well founded, and that a new trial should be granted because the conviction is unwarranted by the evidence. We recognize that there is great danger that injustice may be done a defendant in eases of this kind. The people of a. community are apt to be wrought up to a high pitch of indignation by the heinousness of this offense. The popular mind…