Townsend v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Smith. Tried below before the Honorable J. R. Warren. Appeal from a conviction of selling intoxicating liquors; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. On question of corroboration; Johnson v. State, 208 S. W. Rep., 170. Planson v. State, 11 id., 37. -The latter cited, on question of corroboration: Williams v. State, 199 S. W. Rep.,.296; Nash v. State, 134 id., 708.
1Opinion
ON REHEARING
January 11, 1922.
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The offense is proved by accomplices. The conviction cannot be sustained unless (a) the accomplice testimony of the corpus delicti is corroborated, and (b) there is other testimony tending to connect the appellant with the commission of the offense. Crowell v. State, 24 Texas Crim. App., 410; Hanson v. State, 27 Texas Crim. App., 140; Truelove v. State, 44 Texas Crim. Rep., 389 Ruling Case Raw, vol. 1, p. 169; Slaughter v. State, 86 Texas Crim. Rep., 527.
To corroborate the accomplices to the point that the offense was committed by some one,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Slaughter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1920
- Truelove v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1903