State v. Farris

— Appellant was charged with and convicted of the crime of transporting intoxicating liquor. This appeal is prosecuted from the judgment, to reverse which appellant specifies numerous alleged errors. We shall consider only such thereof as are deemed necessary to a proper disposition of the cause.

Assignments of error 1 and 2 attack instructions 9 and 10, given by the trial judge of his own motion. Instruction 9 reads as follows:

“Circumstantial evidence in criminal eases is the proof of such facts or circumstances connected with or surrounding the commission of the crime charged as tends to…