McIntire v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is felony theft with two prior felony convictions alleged for enhancement; the punishment, life.

We find it unnecessary to discuss appellant’s first four grounds of error because *6we have concluded that his fifth ground calls for a reversal of this conviction.

At the trial appellant did not testify and the State relied upon the testimony of the accomplice, Jerry Keeton, and in order to corroborate such accomplice witness, introduced into evidence appellant’s testimony given in a prior trial of his co-defendant Bird. (See Bird v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 423 S.W.2d…