Gonzales v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is cattle theft; the punishment, assessed by the court after a jury verdict of guilty, 3 years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant’s sole ground of error is that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that the State’s witnesses, Benino and Narcissa Renteria, were accomplice witnesses as a matter of law.

Orville Eugene Hancock testified that while driving on a road seven or eight miles northwest of Grandfalls, Texas, on the afternoon of January 17, 1967, he observed three Latin American males near a red Corvair automobile…