Taylor v. State

Nichols, Presiding Judge.

“Where, as here, a conviction depends entirely upon circumstantial evidence, such evidence must be such as to exclude eveiy other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.” Gibbs v. State, 91 Ga. App. 519 (1) (86 SE2d 369).

The evidence adduced upon the trial of the defendant, charged with possessing nontax-paid liquor, was that no liquor was found in the defendant’s home, but that it was found in a *691plum thicket some 20 or 22 feet from the back steps of his house. There was uncontradicted evidence that the thicket was not on the defendant’s premises…