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Chapman v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Oct 29, 1969
446 S.W.2d 326 (Tex. Crim. App. 1969)

Opinion

No. 41812.

October 29, 1969.

Appeal from the Criminal District Court (now 174th Judicial District Court), Harris County, E. B. Duggan, J.

Charles Chapman, pro se.

Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., Houston, Robert Floyd and Joe S. Moss, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Jim Vollers, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


OPINION


The offense is accomplice to robbery; the punishment, twenty years. This is a companion case to Odom v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 438 S.W.2d 912, but the facts even though necessarily the same were presented in a far different manner. In Odom v. State, supra, we held that Angelia Gerring (Campbell) was an accomplice witness. In the case at bar the Court failed over proper and timely objection to instruct the jury as a matter of law that such witness was an accomplice and failed to submit the question to the jury of her accompliceship as a matter of fact.

Stephenson v. State, 152 Tex.Crim. R., 216 S.W.2d 586, and cases there cited require a reversal of this conviction.

For the error pointed out, the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.

DOUGLAS, J., not participating.


Summaries of

Chapman v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Oct 29, 1969
446 S.W.2d 326 (Tex. Crim. App. 1969)
Case details for

Chapman v. State

Case Details

Full title:Charles CHAPMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: Oct 29, 1969

Citations

446 S.W.2d 326 (Tex. Crim. App. 1969)

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