Court Opinion

ID: 9682470
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:11:43.120874+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:39.523187
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OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
W.C. DAVIS, Judge.
The State contends that the evidence sufficiently corroborates the testimony of the accomplice witness, Richard Williams. Specifically, the State alleges that our original opinion is incorrect in holding that the evidence does not tend to connect appellant to the crime, and that our opinion is inaccurate in stating that the caliber of the murder weapons or bullets was not proved.
We agree that State’s Exhibit No. 8, the autopsy report, which was introduced into evidence, shows that Lansford died as a result of wounds caused by .22 caliber bullets. However, the correctness of our original opinion is not affected by proof of the caliber of the bullets. As set out in our original opinion, when the accomplice witness testimony is set aside, there is no evidence to connect appellant with the weapons or bullets used to kill Lansford— the .22 caliber weapons or bullets — and nothing to connect appellant to the murder. The corroborating evidence corroborated extraneous matters which did not link appellant to the offense.
The State’s motion for rehearing is de-, nied.