State v. Banks

Defendant, a Negro youth of 16 years, was convicted by jury of entering a motor vehicle with intent to steal and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. He claims on appeal that the trial court should have allowed his motion for judgment of acquittal. He contends there was a lack of sufficient evidence to corroborate the testimony of two accomplices. He also claims that the court’s instruction on corroboration of an accomplice’s testimony was erroneous.

Two youths testified that on the night of August 8, 1970, they together with defendant and another “raided” a number of automobiles for…