Rogers v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder with the punishment being assessed by the jury at life imprisonment. 1

We are confronted at the outset with the most serious question in the case — whether the evidence is sufficient to corroborate the testimony of the accomplice witness Jones.

The body of Mrs. Eunice Mouton, the sole employee of the Home Laundry Substation at 9th and Kansas avenues in Port Arthur, was found in such building between 5:30 and 6 p. m. on July 14, 1967. It was shown the time of death was near S :30 p. m.

The autopsy revealed she had been shot in the…