Legal Opinion

Harrison v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided November 27, 1912No. 2063PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of Comanche. Tried below before the Hon. J. H. Arnold. Appeal from a conviction of accessory after the fact; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

The appellant was indicted as an accessory to the crime of seduction. The indictment properly charged that Sam Wimberly on October 15, 1910, seduced Mattie Waldrip. Then the indictment properly charged appellant as an accessory in that, knowing that said Wimberly had committed said offense of seduction, with the purpose and in order that said Wimberly might evade a trial for said offense so committed by him, did unlawfully and willfully conceal and give aid to him. The jury convicted him and fixed his penalty at the lowest, — two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment follows as literally…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Cabral v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. People v. FinchCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1963
  2. Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1971
  3. Carter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
  4. Rogers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1913
  5. State v. NeedhamMississippi Supreme Court · 1938

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