Beard v. State

HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for theft of wool, punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

The prosecution is under the Acts of the '45th Legislature, Ch. 357, p. 709, designated as Art. 1426c in Pocket Part, Vernon’s Tex. P. C., Vol. 3. The indictment charged the theft of wool from J. W. Barr in Concho County.

It is urged that the evidence does not meet the requirements of Art. 718 C. C. P. which forbids a conviction upon the testimony of an accomplice “unless corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant” with the commission of the offense charged. It is…