Brown v. Commonwealth

Opinion

COLEMAN, J.

This criminal appeal presents the questions whether accomplice testimony was uncorroborated, requiring the trial court to give a cautionary jury instruction, and whether the evidence was sufficient to prove that James Warren Brown, Jr. was guilty of robbery. Brown appeals his convictions of armed robbery and the use of a firearm during the commission of a rob bery. He contends that the trial court erred (1) in refusing two jury instructions, one of which would have told them that the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice is to be received with great caution and warning…