People v. Horton

MONROE, J. pro tem., *

Defendant-appellant appeals from a conviction for felonious assault, as defined by Penal Code, section 245, prohibiting an assault “by any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury." The appellant assigns as his sole claim of error that his conviction was based upon the testimony of an accomplice, one Bernard James Walker, and that such testimony was not corroborated, as required by Penal Code, section 1111. That section provides:

“A conviction can not be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to…