Coleman v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Red River. Tried below before the Hon. James Q. Chenoweth, Judge of the Criminal Court of the city of Clarksville. Julia Coleman, Jake Mitchell, and Emily Williams were jointly indicted for the theft of a pocket-book, containing money and notes, the property of and from the house of J. H. Masterson. The defendants, Coleman and Williams, were arrested, and asking a severance, Julia Coleman was put upon trial.
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Appeal from Red River. Tried below before the Hon. James Q. Chenoweth, Judge of the Criminal Court of the city of Clarksville. Julia Coleman, Jake Mitchell, and Emily Williams were jointly indicted for the theft of a pocket-book, containing money and notes, the property of and from the house of J. H. Masterson. The defendants, Coleman and Williams, were arrested, and asking a severance, Julia Coleman was put upon trial. Emily Williams was examined as a witness for the State, and upon her testimony it was shown that she and defendant had been washing and ironing at Masterson’s, and on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
It is not enough that the *111evidence of an accomplice be corroborated by other testimony as to one of several parties charged with the offense ; the confirmation should be “on some fact which goes to fix the guilt on the particular person” on trial. (Rex v. Wilkes, 7 Car. & P., 272; Rose. Cr. Ev.,p. —; Paschal’s Dig., art. 3118 ; Arch. Cr. Prac. and Pl., p. 154 ; People v. Davis, 21 Wend., 313.)
That the purse was found where the accomplice said it was concealed “does not affect the prisoner more than any one else.” (7 Car. & P., supra.)
That another defendant disclosed…
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