Hummel v. State

Ed. F. McFaddiN, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of the crime of sodomy for having unnatural sexual relations with the prosecuting witness, a married female seventeen years' of age. The questions herein discussed are among the twenty-seven assignments of error contained in the motion for new trial.

I. Was the Prosecuting Witness an Accomplice¶ Appellant asked an instruction to the effect that the prosecuting witness was an accomplice and that appellant could not be convicted on her uncorroborated testimony. This instruction was refused, but the court gave the following instructions numbered 5…