Roach v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is passing a forged instrument. The punish ment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

Appellant complains of the court’s action in declining to instruct the jury on the law of circumstantial evidence, or to give his requested instruction on the subject. We are of the opinion that under the evidence he was entitled to such an instruction, because no witness testified to having seen appellant forge the check or heard him say that he forged the same. There was no direct testimony from any source that appellant had knowledge that the…