Ex parte Franklin

In Ex parte Franklin, 72 S.W.3d 671, 675 (Tex. Crim. App. 2002), the Court held that the newly discovered evidence must be affirmative proof of innocence; the applicant must do more than attack the credibility of the State's case. Franklin, 72 S.W.3d at 678. In Franklin, the Court said that affirmative evidence of innocence may include trustworthy witness recantations, exculpatory scientific evidence, trustworthy eyewitness accounts, and critical physical evidence. Id. at 678 n.7.