Croker v. State

Townsend, Judge.

1. While the amount of corroborative extraneous evidence necessary to connect the accused with the commission of the offense lies, where there is any evidence effective for this purpose, peculiarly within the province of the jury, and while slight evidence corroborating the accomplice in identifying the accused as the perpetrator of the crime is sufficient under Code § 38-121 (Mitchell v. State, 202 Ga. 247 (3) 42 S. E. 2d 767), nevertheless, the extraneous evidence must, independently of the confession of the alleged accomplice, be sufficient independently of the confession…