Payne v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

A sufficient statement of the main facts is embraced in the former appeal, which will be found reported in 83 Texas Crim. Rep., 287. The case briefly stated is, the accomplice Williamson testified for the State to a burglary committed by himself and the defendant. Appellant’s testimony was alibi. On cross-examination of the accomplice Williamson, appellant sought to discredit him by showing through the witness himself that he had married the daughter of a…