Carpenter v. Stated

BETHEA, Judge.

The offense is theft of property over the value of fifty dollars, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The first bill of exception complains of the charge on accomplice testimony, it being asserted by appellant that the court assumed in his charge that the testimony of the accomplice made out a case against him, and further that the court instructed the jury that they must believe that the testimony of the accomplice connected the defendant with the offense charged, when he should have embodied in his charge an instruction that the jury must believe that…