Wilson v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tlie circuit court of Grenada county. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. Appellant was convicted of burglary, principally upon the testimony of one Ed Wall, an accomplice. The testimony showed that appellant and Wall broke and entered a store, and took therefrom certain goods, including some white knit goods.
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From tlie circuit court of Grenada county. Hon. C. H. Campbell, Judge. Appellant was convicted of burglary, principally upon the testimony of one Ed Wall, an accomplice. The testimony showed that appellant and Wall broke and entered a store, and took therefrom certain goods, including some white knit goods. Irene and Clyde Crawford, witnesses for the state, testified that, soon thereafter, they saw the defendant, Tom Wilson, in a garden near a house in which the goods were afterward found, with a white hood on his head, but that he made no effort to conceal the same from them, though he knew…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, C. J.
The testimony in this case is very satisfactory as a support for the verdict. The convict and accomplice, Wall, is corroborated in his evidence by testimony tending strongly to convict Tom Wilson. Were this not the case, the jury might have convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of the accomplice, as has been often held.
We find no reversible error in the instructions given or refused. The court instructed liberally for the defendant. It told the jui’y “the testimony of an accomplice should be weighed with great caution, and the jury may disbelieve such testimony altogether, if they believe…
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