Cleavinger v. State

DAYIDSOH, Presiding Judge.

Appellants were convicted of injuring and defacing a public building alleged to be held for public use by Hacogdoches County, and the punishment of each assessed at a pecuniary fine. Testimony was introduced tending to show flight of some of the defendants. In regard to that matter the court instructed, the jury: “The flight of a person suspected of crime is a circumstance to be weighed by the jury as tending in some degree to prove a consciousness of guilt, and is entitled to more or less) weight, according to the circumstances of the particular case in which such…