Jones v. State

DAYIDSOR, Judge.

Appellant prosecutes this appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree, the punishment assessed being twenty years in the penitentiary.

The conviction is predicated entirely upon circumstantial evidence. Upon this subject the court charged the jury: “In order to warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, each fact necessary to the conclusion' sought to be established must be proved by competent evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, and all the facts necessary to such conclusion must be consistent with each other and with the main fact sought to be proved, and the…