State v. Quinn

The appellant was convicted in Brown County of the crime of grand larceny. The decisive issue in so far as this appeal is concerned relates to the question of the corroboration of certain confessed accomplices to the alleged crime.

One Mary Simpson related the facts upon which this charge is based, substantially as follows:

Sometime after 12 o’clock on the night of August 6th, 1942, she went to a place known as the “Happy Hour”, a night club which was being operated by the defendant and located about one and a half miles southwest of Aberdeen. Prior to going to the night club this witness…