Legal Opinion

Stephens v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 6, 1935No. 17137Published

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion

ON state’s motion for rehearing.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

State’s counsel contends that there was error committed in reversing the case. He bases his assertion upon the fact, expressed by him, that the testimony describing the letter bearing date January 9, 1934, as set out in the original opinion, was properly received as corroboration of the prosecutrix; that such corroboration was rendered admissible by the admission of the prosecutrix in her testimony that she had previously implicated another person besides appellant. Counsel for the State refers to the annotations in Branch’s Ann. Tex. P.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Terrell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
  2. Purvis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925

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