Gaskins v. State

A jury found appellant guilty of murder in the first degree without capital punishment; the court thereafter imposed a life sentence. He contends on appeal (1) that he was placed in double jeopardy, (2) that the court erred in admitting certain evidence and in instructing the jury, (3) that his Sixth Amendment right of confrontation was denied him, (4) that there was no corroboration of an accomplice’s testimony sufficient to justify conviction, and (5) that he was denied due process of law by reason of the procedure followed at a pretrial lineup.

Appellant had been convicted of the same…