Garcia v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

In his motion for rehearing, appellant insists that the evidence of the ownership of the hog in question rendered it incumbent upon the court to charge upon the law of circumstantial evidence.

We understand that it is the settled law of this state that the trial court is not required to instruct the jury on the law of circumstantial evidence except in cases in which the state relies solely upon that character of evidence to secure a conviction. See Hunnicutt v. State, 18 Tex. Crim. App. 498; Russell v. State, 38 Tex. Crim. Rep. 596, and other…