Thomas v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is accepting a bribe. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

One of appellant’s main contentions seems to be that the trial court erred in declining to sustain his motion for a peremptory instruction to the jury to return a verdict of not guilty, upon the ground that the evidence is legally insufficient to justify his conviction in this: That no legal evidence other than the testimony of accomplice witnesses had been offered and this testimony was not corroborated by evidence from any source. A careful review of the…