Legal Opinion

Lightfoot v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 6, 1935No. 17293Published

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

The State moves for rehearing upon the proposition that we were wrong in holding the charge of the trial court reversibly erroneous in that part of same relating to the law of accomplices. The charge is set out in our original opinion. There is no question raised in the motion concerning the correctness of our holding that the exception to the charge of the court below for its failure to instruct the jury that one accomplice can not corroborate another, should have been sustained. The authorities are too numerous upon the point to need citation. That…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Standfield v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1919
  2. Anderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  3. Stovall v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925
  4. Spears v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925
  5. Schlesinger v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1932

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