Brown v. State

The appellant was charged by affidavit with grand larceny, tried by the court without a jury, and found guilty. He has assigned error on the overruling of his motion for a new trial, in which it was asserted that the decision of the court was not sustained by sufficient evidence and that it was contrary to law.

The evidence in this case was largely circumstantial, and the appellant contends that it must be held insufficient to sustain the decision when either of two well-recognized rules of law are applied. The appellant first undertakes to invoke the rule that circumstantial evidence, in…