State v. Nelson

(on reassignment).

Appellant, Lyle Nelson, appeals from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict finding him guilty of grand theft. He was sentenced to the state penitentiary for seventeen years. We affirm.

Appellant argues that the evidence introduced at trial to corroborate the testimony of an accomplice was insufficient to satisfy SDCL 23A-22-8.1 We do not agree.

Marcia Lord, appellant’s accomplice, testified that she, Danny Grooms and appellant arrived at a farm house near Estelline, South Dakota on Saturday, March 17, 1979. Then they traveled to Bismarck-Mandan, North Dakota and took a…