Forward v. State

PREMDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted for stealing a watch from the person of Hezekiah Dobbins and his punishment assessed at the lowest prescribed by law.

Appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient. to, sustain the verdict, and within and as a part of that, that the testimony of Chris Tatum, who was an accomplice, was not sufficiently corroborated.

The evidence by Dobbins is to the effect that on the morning of about May 21, 1913, he went in a saloon in Hearne to get a drink of beer and as he walked in he pulled out and looked.at his watch and then replaced it in his…