Legal Opinion

Guyer v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 17, 1896No. 1075PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Wharton. Tried below before Hon. T. S. Reese. Appeal from a conviction for theft of one head of cattle; penalty, two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the theft of cattle, and given two years in the penitentiary, and prosecutes this appeal. There is but one bill of exceptions in the record in this case, and it raises the question as to the sufficiency of the court’s charge on accomplice testimony. The court charged the jury on the subject of accomplice’s testimony, but confined the charge to one witness by name —D. O. Love. Appellant contends that the evidence in the case equally showed that John Pace and Billie Glass were accomplices, and that the court’s charge should not have been restricted to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Saunders v. PeopleMichigan Supreme Court · 1878

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
  2. Lamm v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  3. Anderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931
  4. Mills v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  5. Cooper v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1956

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