Smith v. State

Citations

• 101 Miss. 283
• 57 So. 913

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Circumstantial evidence. Instructions.</p> <p>An instruction for the state that a person can he convicted oí a crime or misdemeanor on circumstantial evidence is fatally erroneous, where it omits the necessary qualification that such circumstantial evidence, must he sufficient to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis than that of guilt.</p>