Victoria v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for robbery with a firearm; the jury assessed punishment of imprisonment for thirteen years.

In his second ground of error the appellant has presented the principal question in this appeal. It is whether a witness who has waived her constitutional privilege against self-incrimination when testifying at the trial of one co-defendant may be compelled to testify to the same matters at a later trial of another co-defendant or may she invoke the privilege against self-incrimination and refuse to testify at the second trial. The…