White v. State

This writ of error is to a judgment of conviction of murder in tbe second degree. Tbe homicide occurred on a street at night with no eyewitnesses. Tbe points that will be here discussed relate to tbe admissibility of circumstantial evidence.

“Great latitude is to be allowed in tbe reception of indirect or circumstantial evidence. It includes all evidence of an indirect nature, whether the inferences afforded by it be drawn from prior experience, or be a deduction of reason from tbe circumstances of tbe particular case, or of reason aided by experience. The competency of a collateral fact to be…