Legal Opinion

Barnes v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 17, 1952No. 26110PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, two years.

The sole question presented for review is the sufficiency of the corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice who testified for the state.

The accomplice Fortune testified that he started off with appellant and one Mantooth in appellant’s automobile for the purpose of burglary; that on the night charged in the indictment he and Mantooth broke into a store in the city of Wink (the offense involved in this prosecution) while appellant waited outside; that they took a safe therefrom and carried it several miles into the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Turner v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1928

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Chavira v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958
  2. Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1958
  3. Medley v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1960
  4. Gary v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1964
  5. Murdoch v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1970

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