Cannon v. State

[1] The evidence tending to connect the defendant with the crime was entirely circumstantial. Where this is the case, as in every other criminal case, the humane provision of the law is that there should not be a conviction unless to a moral certainty it excludes every other reasonable hypothesis than that of the defendant’s guilt; and, in cases where the evidence is entirely circumstantial, it has been held:

“No matter how strong the circumstances, if they can be reconciled with the theory that some other person may have done the act, then the defendant is not shown to be guilty, by that full…