Dyer v. State

Broyles, O. J.

The defendant was convicted of larceny from the person, and his motion for a new trial was overruled. The evidence connecting him with the offense, while wholly circumstantial, was sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of his guilt. It follows that the general grounds of the motion for new trial are without merit.

Special ground 1 complains of the following excerpt from the charge: “The object in all legal investigations is the discovery of truth and the rules of evidence are framed to that prominent end. Direct evidence is that which points immediately to…