Sanders v. State

The defendant was convicted of burglary. His motion for new trial was overruled, and that judgment was assigned as error. A reading of the voluminous brief of evidence satisfies us that the evidence, while wholly circumstantial, was amply sufficient to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save that of the defendant’s guilt, and the general grounds of the motion are without merit. The undisputed evidence shows that on the morning after the burglary the accused was arrested and was wearing a pair of shoes which corresponded in every particular with the tracks and impress of shoes left on a sales…