Manning v. State

Plaintiff in error was convicted of simple larceny (hog-stealing). The chief witness against him was an alleged accomplice. While the question as to whether or not there is sufficient corroboration of the testimony of the accomplice to produce conviction of the defendant’s guilt is peculiarly for the jury, and while it is true that slight evidence corroborating the testimony of the accomplice may be sufficient to authorize a jury to find the defendant guilty, this corroborating evidence must within itself connect the defendant with the crime. It is “an inflexible rule ” that “ in order to…