Chance v. State

ON APPELLANT’S motion for rehearing.

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant requested the court to instruct the jury that his coindictees, Carl Chance, Lonnie Sikes and Olen Tyler would not be permitted to testify as witnesses for appellant even if they desired to do so. The court declined to give such instruction, and appellant complained of its refusal. By appellant’s motion for rehearing our attention is directed to the fact that we said in our original opinion, inadvertently, “It was not error for the court to charge the jury that appellant’s coindictees could not be legally used by him as witnesses in…