Powell v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

In a trial before a jury appellant was convicted of burglary of a building. Punishment was assessed at fifteen years.

Appellant by ground of error challenges the sufficiency of the non-accomplice evidence to corroborate the testimony of the accomplice witness Jewell Dodson, also under indictment for this offense.

Fred Cordell, the complaining witness, testified that during the night of October 4, 1974, his store, the Lazy F. Western Wear, in Childress was burglarized and his 370 pound safe containing over $18,000 in cash and other valuables was stolen. Outside the…