Pulliam v. State

Wyatt, Justice.

The evidence is entirely circumstantial, and must be measured by the rules of law with reference to circumstantial evidence. The Code, § 38-109, declares: “To warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the proved facts shall not only be consistent with the hypothesis of guilt, but shall exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.” In all homicide eases it must be shown that death was caused by some criminal agency on the part of some other human being. Langston v. State, 151 Ga. 388 (106 S. E. 903). It. appears that Mrs. Winnie Pulliam…