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YAWN v. STATE

35962.

93 Ga. App. 236 (1956)

91 S.E.2d 312

YAWN v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided January 25, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ellis Pope, Jackson & Graham, for plaintiff in error.

W. H. Lanier, Solicitor-General, contra.

CARLISLE, J.

1. Breaking and entering are essential elements of the offense of burglary; and, where the State relies on circumstantial evidence alone to show such breaking and entering such evidence must be sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis save that of the guilt of the accused (Gentry v. State, 83 Ga.App. 330, 63 S.E.2d 611; Mosley v. State,

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