Eddens v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of hog-theft, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary. The State’s case, depended largely upon the testimony of Ike Howard and John Mitchell, who were accomplices. The court instructed that said parties were accomplices, and that their testimony would have to be corroborated before conviction could be had thereon. Appellant excepted to this charge for the reason that it failed to instruct the jury that one accomplice could not corroborate another. This latter proposition is a well known rule of law, and such a charge…