Fowler v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

While in all cases of conviction for crime upon circumstantial testimony there must necessarily be some facts connected with the commission of the offense that when taken from the mass of the evidence would conduce, to establish innocence, yet when the links in the chain of circumstances are unbroken and the mind led to the belief of guilt, because the facts developed are inconsistent with any other rational conclusion, it seldom happens that one innocent of the offense is made to suffer the severe penalties of the law.

That some one murdered Lida Bennett, an innocent,…