Samuel Worthen v. State

BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.

Appellant Samuel Worthen was convicted as a party to the robbery at gunpoint of Patricia Contreras, the assistant manager of an Austin pawn shop. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 29.03(a)(2) (West 1994); see also id. § 7.02. It is undisputed that the robbery was committed by Jeff Lee. Worthen’s criminal responsibility for the crime was proved primarily through the testimony of two witnesses, Talia Thompson and Thomas Debrow. The district court instructed the jury that Thompson was an accomplice as a matter of law, but submitted the question of Debrow’s status as an accomplice…