Quinn v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

Hawkins, Judge.

Through the District Attorney the State has filed a motion for rehearing, the effect of which is to urge that inaccuracies in charge on accomplice testimony should be held harmless. The jury should never be told directly or by inference that they could convict upon the testimony of the accomplice witness “alone,” for under no circumstances can that be done under Art. 718 C. C. P. See Abbott v. State, 94 Tex. Cr. R. 31, 250 S. W. 188; Henderson v. State, 97 Tex. Cr. R. 247, 260 S. W. 868. Under the facts in some cases we have held the presence of the…