Court of Appeals of Texas May 17, 1884, No. 3084 (Kenneda v. State)

White, Presiding Judge.

Under the peculiar circumstances shown by the evidence, we cannot say that it is reversible error that the court omitted, in the absence of a special requested instruction on the subject, to charge the jury with regard to the law applicable to the statement made by defendant before his ¡right of possession of the coat was questioned, to the effect that he had purchased the