Steen v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of burglary, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of eight years.

Appellant’s first complaint is that the court erred in overruling his motion for a peremptory instruction to the jury on the ground that the testimony of the accomplice was not sufficiently corroborated to justify and sustain his conviction.

The State offered Will E. Robertson as a witness who testified that on the night of November 16, 1935, he, together with McLemore, appellant, and a boy by the name of Blackie, by force entered…