Miskell v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for theft; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The State relying upon appellant’s possession of recently stolen property as proof of his theft of a car, the case became one of circumstantial evidence, and in his brief appellant merely stresses the well-settled proposition that in such case the testimony must exclude every other hypothesis except that of the guilt of the defendant, and must lead the minds of the jury to a well-settled conviction of his guilt. The authorities cited in appellant’s brief merely support said well-settled proposition. Appellant…