Case ID: sw_242/html/0732-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SMITH v. STATE.
    (No. 6875.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 14, 1922.)
    Criminal law @=>511(1) — Corroboration of accomplice held insufficient to> sustain conviction of theft from the person.
    In a prosecution for theft from the person, evidence aside from the testimony of an accomplice held insufficient to corroborate the accomplice, and therefore not to sustain the conviction.
    Appeal from District Court, Potter County; Henry S. Bishop, Judge.
    C. W. Smith was convicted of theft from the person, and he appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Yeale & Lumpkin, of Amarillo, for appellant.
    R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Conviction is for theft from the person, with an assessed punishment of two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

This is a companion case to No. 6874, A. C. Huckaby v. State, 240 S. W. 557, and No. 6876, T. J. Huckaby v. State, 240 S. W. 558 (opinions delivered April 26, 1922) 240 S. W. 558. The facts in the instant case are identical with those stated in the opinions supra. This case must be reversed for insufficient corroboration of the accomplice witness, and the foregoing eases are referred to for a statement of facts.

The judgment of the trial court is reversed, and the cause remanded.