Court Opinion

ID: 9642942
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 18:13:13.020623+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:00:21.935134
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ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
BELCHER, Judge.
Appellant re-urges his complaint that the trial court erred in refusing to admit the testimony of his wife who was also charged as a principal in the commission of the primary offense of burglary for which he was herein convicted on the ground that she could not be called by him as a defense witness.
The evidence shows that appellant and wife were indicted for the same offense of burglary. On the same date but before appellant’s trial began in this case, his wife was convicted for the burglary, punishment was assessed at three years and she was placed on probation.
In considering similar facts where the wife was under a suspended sentence this Court held that until the prosecution was dismissed she could not be called as a defense witness by her husband. Howell v. State, 109 Tex.Cr.R. 42, 2 S.W.2d 861. A defendant’s wife while on probation would be in the same position as appellant’s wife in the Howell case, supra.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion approved by the Court.