TOWNSEND, J.
1. Where, as here, a conviction depends entirely upon circumstantial evidence, such evidence must be such as to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused.
2. Testimony, on a trial for possession of illegal liquor, that liquor was found under some honeysuckle vines on a vacant lot about 75 yards away from the defendant's house, is, of itself, insufficient to sustain a conviction. Roper v. State,<...
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