Davis v. State

Davis and four others were jointly indicted for murder. At the trial the accused elected to sever, and Davis was first tried. He was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, and complains that the court erred in refusing to grant him a new trial.

1. The judge did not instruct the jury on the law requiring the testimony of an accomplice to' be corroborated, and the failure to do so is assigned as error. Three of the parties jointly indicted with the accused were examined as witnesses, but there is nothing in the evidence showing participation by any of them in the criminal act…