Willard v. State

Citations

• 26 Tex. Ct. App. 126
• 9 S.W. 358
• 1888 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 170

Syllabus

<p>1. Practice—Charos of the Court—Circumstantial Evidence.— Omission oí the trial court to instruct the jury upon the law of eir. cumstantial evidence, in eases wherein the State relies solely upon that character of evidence, is fatal error.</p> <p>2. Same—Confession.—A promise on the part of an accused to pay the owner for the alleged stolen property, although a circumstance that will tend to establish his guilt of the theft, is not a confession that he took the property, and hence is not a confession of theft.</p>