Taylor v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Caldwell. Tried below before the Honorable M. C. Jeffrey. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion
ON REHEARING.
May 12, 1920.
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant moves for a rehearing, complaining of the insufficiency of the evidence, and of the original opinion of the court in holding that the same fairly supported the verdict.
We decline to interfere with verdicts of juries when the evidence is conflicting, and only act in such matters when the record is so bare of supporting facts as to lead us to conclude that the result must have come through some passion or prejudice, or when the verdict is such as that a reasonable mind is unable to assent to the conclusion reached by the jury. In this case,…
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