Umsted v. State

435 S.W.2d 156 (1968)

Joe Floyd UMSTED, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 41588.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 11, 1968.

Ochsner, Nobles & Baughman by Harold W. Ochsner, Amarillo, for appellant.

William Hunter, Dist. Atty., Dalhart, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for arson; the punishment, nine years.

The appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to corroborate the testimony of the accomplice witness Floyd Lebow.

Edward Wesley Hartsfield, Floyd Ray Lebow and the appellant were jointly indicted in…