State v. Whaley

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Hydrick.

Appellants were convicted of receiving stolen goods on the uncorroborated testimony of two accomplices, and were sentence to three years imprisonment. Tucker contends that, even if the uncorroborated testimony of accomplices is sufficient to warrant conviction, the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict as to him.

1 Joseph Jones', one of the accomplices, testified that Tucker was the driver of Whaley’s wagon, and came with Whaley, in the nighttime, to the place in the woods, where the stolen goods (five sacks of nitrate of…