Bass v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for theft; punishment, four years in the penitentiary.

The state depended chiefly on the testimony of accomplice Poland. In his charge the court told the jury they could not convict on Poland’s testimony, unless they found it to be true, “and that it connects the defendant with the commission of the offense charged,” and that there was other testimony beside accomplice testimony corroborating Poland, and tending to connect appellant with the commission of such offense, and that from all the testimony they must believe beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant was…