Graybill v. State

OPINION

ODOM, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for possession of a short-barrel firearm, V.T. C.A., Penal Code Sec. 46.06. Punishment, enhanced by allegation and proof of two prior felony convictions, was fixed at life.

In the fourth ground of error, appellant contends it was reversible error to overrule his objection to the charge and to refuse to charge the jury on the law of circumstantial evidence. A statement of the facts of the case is therefore required.

At about 11:30 a. m. on March 31,1977, a maid at the Gulf Coast Motor Inn in Houston came to room 212 of the motel to clean the…