Harper v. State

An error in the court's charge to the jury, as to corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice in burglary, did not require a reversal of the judgment refusing a new trial; for the evidence demanded the conviction. The charge was sufficient, in the absence of request for instruction, to withstand the attack thereon for any reason assigned. MacINTYRE, J., dissents.

DECIDED OCTOBER 4, 1943.

1. The court charged the jury, as to corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice, as follows: "There are numbers of ways by which corroboration may be made: testimony of other witnesses, proof of what…