Case ID: sw_231/html/0108-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHANDLER v. STATE.
    (No. 6264.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 11, 1921.)
    Criminal law <S=>507(I), 510 — Purchaser of liquor is accomplice, whose testimony is alone insufficient to sustain conviction.-
    In a prosecution for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors, the alleged purchaser was an accomplice whose testimony is insufficient to sustain the conviction in the absence of any corroborating facts.
    Appeal from District Court, Kaufman County; Joel R. Bond, Judge.
    John Chandler was convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors, and he appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Wynne & Wynne, of Kaufman, Miller & Miller, of Athens, and Ross Hutfmaster, of Kaufman, for appellant.
    R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

Appellant was convicted of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors.

The state relied solely upon the testimony of the alleged purchaser of the liquor. ‘He was an accomplice, and, in the absence of any corroborating facts, the evidence is insufficient. Franklin v. State, 227 S. W. 486.

The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.