Joiner v. State

On the trial of Joiner, who was indicted for murder and found guilty with a recommendation that he be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for life, the court, in its charge to the jury, gave to them a correct definition of direct evidence, and explained to them the difference between it and circumstantial evidence, and also gave them instructions upon the law of voluntary manslaughter and justifiable homicide. These things are complained of in the motion for a new trial filed by the accused, which alleges that the evidence was entirely circumstantial, and that it contained nothing…