Cave v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is that of being an accessory to the crime of murder; the punishment, 2 years. \

The state relied upon appellant’s confession, which recited that he was present when Lumpkin shot Evans and that, following this, “we wound around and dismantled the gun” and “ended up on that street on Almeda by the stables” and “then we turned right across a bridge and Sandy (Lumpkin) threw the chamber and spindle into the bayou.”

Officer Chapman of the Houston police was called in an effort to corroborate this confession, but after a careful examination of his testimony we…