Shaffer v. State

ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING.

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

Appellant insists that we were in error in holding that the accomplice witness Burton was sufficiently corroborated. Burton testified that he, Hugh Caperton and appellant were desirous of obtaining some money for the Christmas holidays; that the three of them decided to write some checks purporting to be executed by Dr. J. E. Fuller; that pursuant to their agreement appellant wrote three checks and signed J. E. Fuller’s name to them; that appellant stated to him (the witness) that he cashed his check at Montgomery-Ward’s, where he bought a…