Crenshaw v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree; twenty-five years in the penitentiary being fixed as the punishment.

Peevy, a State’s witness, testified to facts which made him an accomplice, and. under an agreement with the .State was to be relieved from punishment by turning State’s evidence. The court charged the jury in this connection, as follows: “You are instructed that the witness Dan Peevy was an accomplice, as that term is defined in the foregoing instructions; and you are further instructed ’that you cannot find the defendant guilty upon his…