Wilson v. State

The defendant, Tobe Wilson, West Hardy, and Joe Hollis were jointly indicted for breaking and entering the depot of the Seaboard Air-line Railway with intent to commit a larceny. West Hardy and Joe Hollis entered pleas of guilty and testified for the State in the trial of the defendant Tobe Wilson. Exception was taken to the failure of the court to charge section 1017 of the Penal Code (1910), which provides that “in case of felony, where the only witness is an accomplice,” such evidence is insufficient to support a conviction, unless it is corroborated. In Pope v. State, 171 Ga. 655, it was…