Hightower v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Erath. Tried below before the Hon. W. J. Oxford. Appeal from a conviction of accessory to burglary; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case On the question of accessory: Kings-berry v. State, 37 Texas Crim. Rep., 259.,
1Opinion of the Court
HARPER, Judge.
The indictment against appellant contained three counts, one charging him with being a principal in the burglary, another that he was an accomplice, and the third that he was an accessory to the crime.
Many questions are presented for review, some of which were not presented in the trial court, but we do not deem it necessary to discuss them at length, but merely to say that none of them present reversible error if the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict. Had the jury found appellant guilty as a principal in the transaction, the evidence, in our opinion, would have…
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