Alsup v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder and his punishment fixed at seven years confinement in the penitentiary.

On this appeal his most serious complaint is that he was deprived of the testimony of his.witness Allison, by reason of the fact that while the jury were being selected in his case, and after the witness had been sworn and put under the rule, said witness Allison was indicted for the same offense as that charged against appellant, and he was thereby unable to have the benefit of Allison’s testimony; which facts, and the testimony he expected to obtain from said witness,…