Reynolds v. State

In the recent case of Brown v. State, 475 S.W.2d 938, this Court held the evidence sufficient to support the conviction upon circumstantial evidence, where no accomplice witness testified. Excluding the accomplice testimony in the present case, the evidence is, in my opinion, much stronger than in the Brown case, supra.

In that case, Dolphus Jack Brown, the defendant, lived in the same house near Shallowater with his parents. The brutally beaten bodies of his parents were found in the home. Appellant’s brown shirt with two tiny blood spots on it was found in a clothes hamper near the bedroom…