139 Tex. Crim. 33 - Weir v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““To sustain this conviction, we would be forced to lay down the rule that any person whose fingerprints might be discovered on a slip of paper found on the burglarized premises was either the person who committed the burglary or was connected therewith; this would, of course, be contrary to the well-established rule that the circumstances relied on to establish the guilt of the accused in cases depending on circumstantial evidence must exclude every other reasonable hypothesis except that of the defendant’s guilt. We do not think the evidence meets the requirement of the law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 Tex. Crim. 147 - Caudillo v. State