Bishop v. State

The defendant below, Robert J. Bishop, was convicted of larceny and sentenced to three years in the State Prison.

It is insisted that the trial court committed reversible error in failing and refusing to instruct the jury with reference to the law of circumstantial evidence. It is conceded that all evidence offered by the State was circumstantial in its nature, hut the State insists that no special *430request having been tendered by the defendant or his counsel be cannot now avail himself of this error.

Our leading case on this subject is Webb v. State, 140 Tenn. 205, 203 S. W. 955, 15 A. L. R.…