Bates v. State

The appellant, R.J. Bates, in this case was accused of procuring other people to commit a burglary, robbery, and murder. He was convicted by a Walker County jury and sentenced to life imprisonment. The single issue raised on appeal by counsel is whether the trial court erred in overruling appellant's motion to exclude state's evidence; appellant contends that the court did so err because of an alleged lack of corroborative testimony of accomplices McCullars and Culpepper.

The state's evidence tended to show that the appellant procured Steve "Red" McCullars to perform the robbery of Mr. Crump,…