Atchley v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Eastland County of theft of an automobile, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of three years.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of'the testimony to support the conviction. Our laws plainly forbid the conviction of one accused of crime upon the testimony of an accomplice unless same is corroborated, and it is provided that such corroboration must in and of itself tend to connect the accused with the crime he is charged to have committed. In determining whether the other evidence in the…