HENDERSON v. STATE

18592.

210 Ga. 680 (1954)

82 S.E.2d 638

HENDERSON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 31, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis Y. Fife, Morgan C. Stanford, for plaintiff in error.

J. C. Tanksley, Charlie O. Murphy, Paul Webb, Solicitor-General, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Rubye G. Jackson, contra.


HEAD, Justice.

1. In ground 1 of the amended motion for new trial it is contended that the court erred in failing to charge the jury, without request, on the law of circumstantial evidence as set forth in Code §§ 38-102 and 38-109. It is insisted that all of the evidence adduced on the trial was circumstantial, and that it was mandatory on the court to charge the law of circumstantial evidence.

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