Legal Opinion

Johnson v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 3, 1913Published

1Opinion

On Motion for Rehearing.

Appellant has only two grounds of complaint in his motion for rehearing. The first is to the action of the court in refusing to give his special charge on circumstantial evidence. We did not particularly discuss this question in the original opinion, deeming it unnecessary. We will now state and discuss it.

The court did not charge on circumstantial evidence. Appellant requested a charge on that subject, which the court refused. The question is raised by appellant in his motion for a new trial (7a) by claiming the court erred in failing and refusing to give his special…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Exon v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1894
  2. Red v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
  3. Crews v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1895
  4. Kidwell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1895
  5. Thompson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1894

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