Burks v. State

• Decision Date: 10 April 1893
• Citation: 17 S.E. 619,92 Ga. 461
• Parties: BURKS v. STATE.
• Court: Georgia Supreme Court

17 S.E. 619

92 Ga. 461

BURKS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia

April 10, 1893

Syllabus by the Court.

The evidence implicating the accused being rather weak, and wholly circumstantial, his good character might well have been treated by the jury as an answer to it: but the jury, in the light of all the evidence, having found him guilty, and the trial judge having approved the finding, this court will leave the verdict to stand, there being no sufficient legal reason for overruling the judgment denying a new trial.

Error from superior court, Sumter county; W. H. Fish, Judge.

John Burks, having been convicted of burglary, and his motion for new trial having been overruled, brings error. Affirmed.

Hinton & Cutts and J. A. Hixon, for plaintiff in error.

C. B. Hudson, Sol. Gen., and Hudson & Blalock, for the State.

PER CURIAM.

Judgment affirmed.