Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, 2007

The Court of Criminal Appeals held that the evidence was legally sufficient to support Clayton’s murder conviction because the court of appeals failed to assess the combined and cumulative force of the circumstantial evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict.

The Court of Criminal Appeals held that the evidence was legally insufficient to prove that Williams recklessly caused her children’s deaths. Taking the children to a home without utilities and leaving them with a lit candle while a caretaker not shown to be incompetent supervised them did not establish conscious…