Hernandez v. State

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

MEYERS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to thirty-five years imprisonment.1 The Thirteenth Court of Appeals reversed appellant’s conviction and ordered an acquittal after finding the evidence insufficient to corroborate the accomplice witness testimony. Hernandez v. State, 907 S.W.2d 654 (Tex.App.—Corpus Christi 1995). We granted the State’s petition for discretionary review to determine whether the court of appeals erred in misinterpreting the quality *175and quantum of proof necessary to corroborate accomplice testimony…