McCarty v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of stealing three head of cattle belonging to Ed Yarbrough and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.

The indictment alleges the theft of the cattle in question on the third day of August, 1941. The State relies chiefly on the testimony of a sixteen-year-old boy named Williams who is by his statement an accomplice. The appeal presents but one question for our consideration and that is whether or not there was sufficient evidence to corroborate the witness in the essential elements of the offense for which this conviction was had.

Vernon…