Legal Opinion

Threlkeld v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided May 22, 1957No. 28,669Published

1Opinion

*106ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant’s counsel argues that the evidence shows that Jo Ann Cook “engineered or procured the solicitation extended her to go to work as a prostitute for appellant.” It is pointed out that she went voluntarily to the hotel where appellant was employed, registered under an assumed name, and spent the night having sexual relations with appellant without charge.

Upon these facts we are asked to distinguish this case from Porter v. State, 141 Texas Cr. Rep. 417, 148 S.W. 2d 202, and hold as a matter of law that Jo Ann Cook was an accomplice…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Porter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1941

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