Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Eddie Lee Wright, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

September 10, 19801980 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1327

Summary

The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Eddie Lee Wright's murder conviction, holding that the circumstantial evidence did not exclude every reasonable hypothesis of his innocence and therefore was insufficient to sustain the verdict; the case was remanded with instructions to enter a judgment of acquittal.