VALDEZ v. STATE

No. 13-85-014-CR.

700 S.W.2d 338 (1985)

Facundo VALDEZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied December 12, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matias Morin, Jr., Edinburg, Joseph A. Connors, III, McAllen, for appellant.

Rene Guerra, Theodore C. Hake, Edinburg, for appellee.

Before UTTER, KENNEDY, and SEERDEN, JJ.


OPINION

UTTER, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of murder and assessed his punishment at 20 years in the Texas Department of Corrections.

In his first ground of error appellant contends that the non-accomplice evidence insufficiently corroborates the testimony of his accomplices. Since Texas law prohibits a conviction based on accomplice testimony alone, non-accomplice evidence must be produced which tends to connect the accused to the offense...

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