Task: Wrong Candidate Generation
Input (English): as corroboration of the testimony of a covert witness; each case must be judged on its own facts. Id. The tends-to-connect standard does not present a high threshold. See id. (citing In re C.M.G., 905 S.W.2d 56, 58 (Tex.App.-Austin 1995, no writ)). The corroborating evidence does not, by itself, have to establish the guilt of the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt, but it does have to tend to connect the defendant with the offense. McDuff, 939 S.W.2d at 613; Brown, 159 S.W.3d at 711; Torres, 137 S.W.3d at 196. Evidence that merely provides corroboration of “details” of the accomplice's testimony is not sufficient if it does not corroborate a fact that tends to connect the defendant to the offe , at *2 (Tex.App.-Fort Worth May 27, 2004, pet. ref'd) (not designated for publication) (<HOLDING>); Leal v. State, No. 05-03-00281-CR, 2004 WL 
 Holding statements: (A) holding that mens rea required for possession of a controlled substance is knowledge that defendant possessed a controlled substance (B) holding that it was not necessary for the state to prove that the defendant knew the precise nature of the controlled substance he was convicted of delivering when evidence established that he knew it was a controlled substance (C) holding officers identification of defendants voice on tape recording of phone call setting up controlled buy sufficient to corroborate informants testimony regarding subsequent buy (D) holding that possession of listed chemical with intent to manufacture controlled substance is controlled substance offense (E) holding informants testimony of actual transfer of a controlled substance sufficiently corroborated by testimony of dea agents that informant was given 150 to make controlled buy and by video recording made by informant that showed him buying two 50 rocks from defendant
Output (English): holding that it was not necessary for the state to prove that the defendant knew the precise nature of the controlled substance he was convicted of delivering when evidence established that he knew it was a controlled substance