Miller v. State

The appellant was convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to serve a year and a half in the penitentiary. The main issue is whether the testimony of Lewis Odem, an alleged accomplice, was sufficiently corroborated. Ark. Stats. 1947, § 43-2116.

The State proved that the stolen property, a surveyor’s transit, was taken from a locked tool shed at a construction project in Cotton Plant and was later sold to Paul Mathis by the accomplice, Odem. Miller was employed at the time as a bricklayer on the construction job. Odem testified that he and Miller drove to the tool shed in Odem’s car, broke the…