Barnett v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction of murder; punishment, life imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The sufficiency of the testimony, resting mainly on the question of the lack of corroboration of the accomplice, is challenged. Crabtree, Looney and Furl at about ten o’clock at night came in a car together to a point in a pasture not far from the town of Megargel in Young County, at which point officers had located a quantity of cigarettes taken from a burglarized house in Gra ham. The tracks of two cars had been followed from the burglarized store to the point where the cigarettes were found. The tracks…