Patterson v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is Murder with Malice; the punishment, assessed by the jury at ninety-nine (99) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant was tried jointly with Willie Sewell in Criminal District Court No. 4 of Dallas County commencing on the 19th day of May, 1966. The Court charged the jury on the law of principals.

In his first ground of error, appellant contends that the trial court erred in failing to charge on the law of circumstantial evidence.

The record reveals that the deceased, Leland Floyd Hendley, a forty-three year old white insurance agent,…