Case Name: Josh ROBERSON v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-11-19
Citations: 266 S.W. 1116
Docket Number: No. 8356
Parties: Josh ROBERSON v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 266
Pages: 1116–1117

Head Matter:
Josh ROBERSON v. STATE.
(No. 8356.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 19, 1924.
Rehearing Denied Dec. 17, 1924.)
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; C. A. Pippen, Judge.
Ashworth & French, of Dallas, King & York, of Austin, and Tom K. Eplen, of Dallas, for appellant.
Shelby S. Cox, Cr. Dist. Atty., of Dallas, and Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in criminal district court No. 2 of Dallas county of the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary. The record contains but one bill of exceptions, by which is presented appellant's complaint of the refusal of the trial court to affirmatively instruct the jury that Mrs. Andrew Stout was an accomplice. The record discloses that the state relied upon the proposition that the accused was making whis-ky on the farm of Andrew Stout. Andrew Stout was used as a witness by the state, and upon the facts was deemed by the learned trial judge to be an accomplice, and the jury were so instructed. Mrs. Andrew Stout also testified for the state to many damaging facts. It was admitted by her during cross-examination that on one occasion appellant came to her house and borrowed a tub. The evidence does not disclose that he made known to her the purpose for which he borrowed same, nor that she knew what he wanted with it. The evidence does disclose, however, that she had seen him under very suspicious circumstances at other times and places. In this state of the record, appellant asked and the court gave a special charge submitting to the jury the question as to whether Mrs. Stout was an accomplice. This was giving appellant all we think him entitled to under the testimony. There was no error in the refusal of the instruction that Mrs. Stout was an accomplice. The testimony seems ample to support the judgment. No error appearing, an affirmance will be ordered.