Sealey v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

— The offense, transporting intoxicating liquor; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

The trial court in its main charge charged the jury that the state’s main witness was an accomplice in the alleged transportation of said whisky, and having so charged, as a matter of law a proper charge was required instructing the jury in regard to this phase of the law. The court gave the following charge in that connection: “I instruct you that the

witness, D. W. Hawkins, is an accomplice. You cannot convict the defendant on his testimony alone, unless you first…