Haynie v. State

At the Austin term, 1877, we had occasion to reverse this case on the first appeal for errors in the admission of the testimony, and in the refusal of the court to give in charge to the jury a certain special instruction asked by the defendant. 2 Texas Ct. App. 168.

As now presented, the case is one entirely of circumstantial evidence. The court properly instructed the jury “ that, where a conviction is sought upon circumstantial evidence alone, the facts relied upon must be absolutely incom*224patible with the innocence of the defendant, and incapable of explanation upon any other reasonable…