Satterfield v. State

John A. Fogleman, Justice.

I dissent from the reversal of this case because I am not convinced that we could sustain a conviction of the witnesses who are alleged to be accomplices of appellant if the state’s evidence were exactly what we have before us.

If these alleged accomplices, Jerry Turner, Larry Dunn and Divine Coggins, were tried on this testimony, we would have substantially the following:

Divine Coggins was with Leon Satterfield for about three and one-half hours beginning about 6:30 p.m. on the day the barn was burned. She rode around with him in Salem until about 9 p.m. when they…