Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.
We find that certain errors and omissions made during the court's charge may have confused the jury about the burden of proof in this case. As the evidence against the appellant was wholly circumstantial, the court should have charged that the inference of guilt must flow naturally from the circumstantial evidence and that every hypothesis other than guilt...
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