Ford v. State

Appellant, Tracey Ford, together with an accomplice, Vestal Maxwell, was charged in an information with the crime of murder in the first degree "while in the commission of the felonious crime of robbery of W. B. Stone.” Appellant was tried separately, found guilty and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment for life in the state penitentiary. From the judgment on the verdict comes this appeal.

Appellant says that "the only point upon which he. urges a reversal of this case is that there is not any evidence to corroborate the statement of the admitted accomplice, Vestal Maxwell.”

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