Howard v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant stresses in his motion for rehearing claimed errors on the part of the trial court in not charging generally upon circumstantial evidence and in not charging upon that subject specifically as it related to the identification of Nixon’s body. After having carefully examined the facts bearing upon the matter and also the authorities relied upon by appellant we find ourselves unable to adopt his viewpoint. The death of Nixon by the criminal agency of appellant is shown by the direct evidence of the accomplice Ham. He details the shooting at…