Campbell v. State

The majority holds that no circumstantial evidence charge was required. I cannot *797agree. The case should be reversed and remanded on the authority of our recent holding in Casey v. State, 523 S.W.2d 658 (Tex.Cr.App.1975).

In Casey, as in this case:

“The direct evidence sufficiently proved the corpus delicti of the offense. The remaining element of proof essential to the State’s case was that appellant was the guilty agent in causing deceased’s death. Self v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 513 S.W.2d 832 [1974]; Brantley v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 522 S.W.2d 519 (1975).” 523 S.W.2d, at 659.

Casey was a murder…