Case Name: RODIFER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1931-11-13
Citations: 43 S.W.2d 931
Docket Number: No. 14860
Parties: RODIFER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 43
Pages: 931–931

Head Matter:
RODIFER v. STATE.
No. 14860.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 13, 1931.
Jas. D. Buster, of Sherman, for appellant. Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Conviction for passing a forged instrument; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.
Appellant passed a cashier's check to one Anderson, and being arrested shortly thereafter, there was found in his possession a number of cashier's checks filled out in blank on the same bank. Appellant did not testify. There is no further showing in the record as to who signed the alleged forged check, which was shown to be a forgery. Nor is there any testimony shedding light upon where appellant obtained the other checks found in his possession.
The court did not charge on circumstantial evidence. Appellant presented to the trial court a requested charge submitting the law applicable to a case as one of circumstantial evidence, which charge was refused, and the refusal made the subject of a bill of exception. The failure of the trial court to include in his charge a paragraph submitting the law of circumstantial evidence was also excepted to and brought forward in a bill.
This court seems to have uniformly held since the case of Nichols v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. R. SO, 44 S. W. 1091, that under facts like these a charge on circumstantial evidence 49 Tex. Cr. R. 532, 94 S. W. 233; Martin v. State, 81 Tex. Cr. R. 307, 194 S. W. 1105; Cox v. State, 92 Tex. Cr. R. 498, 244 S. W. 605. Since the case must be reversed for this error, the others mentioned will not be discussed. should be given. See Gaut v. State, 49 Tex. Cr. R. 493, 94 S. W. 1034; Lasister v. State,
The judgment of the trial court will be reversed, and the cause remanded.