Adams v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Callahan County, charged with incest, and when tried, was convicted, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. In the first ground of his motion for a new trial the appellant complains of the following paragraph of the court’s charge:

“I instruct you that if, in fact, a crime was committed, the witness, Birdie Graham, is an accomplice.

“Now, you can not convict the defendant upon her testimony alone, unless you first believe that her testimony is true and shows that the defendant is guilty of the…