WALLS v. STATE

No. 27200.

273 S.W.2d 877 (1954)

Eddie Harold WALLS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 24, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter P. Cheswick, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Houston, Eugene Brady, Asst. Dist. Atty., Austin, Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for felony theft of an automobile; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The appeal is predicated upon the insufficency of the evidence to corroborate the accomplice' testimony and to sustain the conviction.

About 8 or 8:30 P.M. on January 1, 1954, Mr. Carl Maples parked his 1953 Mercury in front of the Masonic Lodge, in the 2800 Block of Luell Street, in Houston. He described the car as green with a black...

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