Jackson v. State

Jimmie Lee Eacker testified that he committed the armed robbery of the Time Saver Grocery. He named defendant, Jackson, as an accomplice who drove the getaway car. The jury was specifically instructed that Eacker was an accomplice,1 that it must view his testimony with distrust2 and that his testimony was insufficient for conviction unless it was corroborated.3 In effect, the jury was told that Eacker was biased or interested in the outcome of Jackson’s case as a matter of law. Despite this overwhelming evidence of “bias” emphasized by the jury instructions, Jackson sought to introduce…