Sanders v. State

1. “While in every criminal ease, where it is .sought to show the guilt of the defendant by circumstantial evidence alone, the jury should be instructed and cautioned that he should not be convicted on circumstantial evidence, unless the proved facts exclude every possible reasonable hypothesis save the guilt of the defendant, still it is immaterial what language- is employed to convey this instruction.” Mangum v. State, 5 Ga. App. 445 (2) (63 S. E. 543). “Conceding that the defendant’s conviction depended entirely upon circumstantial evidence, the failure of the judge, in the absence of a…