Bonner v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for felony theft; the punishment, ten years.

The appellant urges as grounds of error that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction for the reason that the state introduced in evidence exculpatory statements which it did not disprove; and that the trial court refused to give his requested charge to the jury that the exculpatory statements are regarded as true unless disproved, and if the state has failed to disprove such statements to find him not guilty.

Officer Hand, a state’s witness, testified on direct examination that after observing an…