Allen v. State

1. The' conviction of the accused did not depend wholly upon circumstantial evidence, and the failure of the court to charge upon the law of direct and circumstantial evidence was not error, in the absence of a request so to do.

2. Where a ground of a motion for a new trial complains of the charging of certain principles of law (which the ground alleges should not have been charged, under the evidence adduced), or complains of the failure to give certain charges (which the ground alleges was error, under the evidence adduced), but where no evidence whatsoever is set forth in the ground, the…