Brown v. State

Clark, Judge.

Willie Lee Brown was found guilty of burglary by a jury in DeKalb County. He has taken this appeal after the overruling of his motion for new trial. The enumeration of errors includes the denial of the new trial motion on general grounds and three charges to the jury by the trial court.

Appellant earnestly contends the State’s case was built entirely upon circumstantial evidence based solely upon recent possession of goods identified as taken during the burglary. Pointing to Code § 38-109 he contends that the State has not excluded every other reasonable hypothesis save that of…