Sullenger v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for cattle theft, with the lowest punishment assessed.

In view of the disposition we shall make of this case, we see no necessity of making any statement of the testimony. We have carefully, considered all of the special charges requested by appellant. Those presenting any proper charge were covered by the court’s charge. None of the others should have been given.

Mr. Branch, in his Criminal Law, section 203, so aptly lays down the rules which show when a charge on circumstantial evidence is unnecessary, we quote them with…