Wright v. State

Citations

• 7 Tex. Ct. App. 574

Syllabus

<p>1. Accomplice Testimony. — A detective who for the purpose of discovering crime ostensibly aids in its commission is not an accomplice within the meaning of the provision of the Code which prohibits a conviction on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.</p> <p>2. Same — Charge of the Court. — The principal State’s witness, as appeared by his own and other testimony, acquired his knowledge of the offence in the character of a detective and feigned accomplice. Held, that the court below correctly submitted to the jury the question whether the witness was or was not a guilty confederate, with appropriate instructions upon the -law controlling accomplice testimony, and its effect upon the case if they found the witness to be such a confederate.</p>