Case Name: PIPPEN v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-12-23
Citations: 278 S.W. 205
Docket Number: No. 9684
Parties: PIPPEN v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 278
Pages: 205–205

Head Matter:
PIPPEN v. STATE.
(No. 9684.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Dec. 23, 1925.)
Crosby & Estes, of Greenville, for appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, and Nat Gentry, Jr., Asst. State’s Atty., of Tyler, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Hunt county of transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
But one witness gave testimony. He swore that he and another man made whisky, and that he sold a quantity of it to appellant, who transported it away from the place of purchase to some other place. This witness was an accomplice. Cate v. State, 100 Tex. Cr. R. 611, 272 S. W. 210. A conviction, resting solely upon the testimony of one or any number of accomplices, cannot be sustained.
The evidence being insufficient to support the judgment, a reversal is ordered.