Roper v. State

Hunt, Presiding Justice.

Carlton Leonard Roper was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals and we affirm.

1. The defendant argues that the evidence presented at trial was purely circumstantial and insufficient to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and that it failed to exclude every reasonable hypothesis inconsistent with his guilt.

We have held that the correct rule for determining the sufficiency of the evidence in convictions based entirely on circumstantial evidence is that

[q]uestions as to reasonableness are generally to be decided by the jury which heard…