Russell v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Stephens county on a charge of murder, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The first contention is that there is no sufficient corroboration of the accomplice who testified as a witness for the state. This assignment requires a brief-summary of the testimony, both of the accomplice ana that in corroboration. In February, 1926, in the nighttime, W. T. Myers and James Buckner were traveling the highway in a- truck about 15 miles east of Duncan. A car containing three men…