Barr v. State

Citations

• 10 Tex. Ct. App. 507

Syllabus

<p>1. Charge of the Court on Circumstantial Evidence.—See the opinion in this case in extenso for a review of the adjudications in this State upon the question whether and how far it is incumbent on the trial courts, in cases dependent on circumstantial evidence alone, to give in charge to the jury, as part of the law of the case, the legal principles formulated and known as the “ rule in Webster’s case.”</p> <p>2. Same.— Note instructions which are held to be defective and insufficient in the present case.</p> <p>3. “Reasonable Doubt.”—The doctrine of reasonable doubt applies to the general issue of guilty or not guilty, and it was not error to refuse a special instruction which attempted to apply it to each and every fact in proof.</p>