Court Opinion

ID: 9772386
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:16:24.669919+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:43.955174
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
BELCHER, Judge.
Appellant again strenuously insists that this case is one of circumstantial evidence, and that the trial court erred in not responding to his exception to its failure to so charge the jury.
*397About 2 A.M., the appellant and Ina Sue in one car met the deceased and two other men in another car, when the deceased suddenly reactivated an ill-feeling' between himself and the appellant, and the appellant became angry, telling the deceased he ought to cut his throat or kill him and fought with him in the car, and admits that he had his knife open in his hand during the fight and may have cut him on the wrist with it. Then those present left the deceased alone in his car at the scene and five or six hours later his body was found in his car which had not been moved; and there is no dispute that the deceased died as a result of two stab wounds in the chest. Appellant’s presence, his declarations to the deceased as he approached deceased’s car with an open knife, and his intimate connection with the deceased just before his death are in such close relation to the main fact to be proved — that is, who stabbed the deceased —that they obviate the necessity of charging on circumstantial evidence. 4 Branch’s Ann. P.C. 2d 359, Sec. 2050; Smith v. State, 161 Texas Cr. Rep. 620, 273 S.W. 2d 623.
The other contentions urged by the appellant have been carefully considered and they do not show error.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion approved by the Court.