Legal Opinion

McNeill v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided October 3, 1928PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, P. J.

The validity of the statute creating. the Commission of Appeals to aid the Court of Criminal Appeals was upheld hy the opinion of this court in Jackson v. State, 103 Tex. Cr. R. 318, 280 S. W. 202, and by the Supreme Court of the United States, as appears from the memorandum opinion in Id., 271 U. S. 661, 46 S. Ct. 474, 70 L. Ed. 1138.

The fact that the witness Chipman may have been a eotransporter with the appellant did not render it incumbent'upon the court to charge on accomplice testimony, for the reason that hy article 670, P. C. 1925, a co-transporter of intoxicating liquor is exempted…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Clement Gunn v. The United States of AmericaSupreme Court of the United States · 1926
  2. Bailey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
  3. Currie v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925
  4. Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1925
  5. Dean v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1926

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Cox v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973

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