Hinson v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was given a five year sentence in the penitentiary on a conviction for sodomy.

It will not be necessary to discuss the repulsive evidence in the case. A small boy was involved. Under his statement of what occurred he is an accomplice. His testimony was not corroborated by any fact or circumstance, so far as proof of the corpus delicti is concerned. To the contrary, two policemen to whom the matter was first reported by the boy’s father quoted the lad as giving statements contradictory to that testified to by him on the witness stand. According to the statement which…