Hankins v. State

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals · Decided 1983-03-01

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MILLER, Judge, concurring and dissenting. Today the majority dispenses with the necessity of instructing the jury on the law of circumstantial evidence, a Texas legal tradition over a hundred years old, and yet continues the prohibition against instructing the jury on a definition of reasonable doubt, a Texas legal tradition over a hundred years old. The logic for the latter is…

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