Walker v. Commonwealth

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Gene Walker appeals from a judgment which sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment pursuant to a verdict convicting him of breaking and entering a dwelling house. The evidence on which he was convicted consisted of the testimony of an accomplice, implicating him directly, and some circumstantial evidence offered by way of corroboration. Walker’s sole argument is that the corroborating evidence was insufficient to meet the requirement, under RCr 9.62, of “tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense.”

Early in the morning on January 17, 1970, a house…