Crumbley v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The question of merit in this case is whether there is to be found in the evidence sufficient corroboration of the testimony of an accomplice who admits the crime and testified on the trial that he was instigated to commit the offense by this defendant. Anee Cochran testified that on Sunday night September 18, 1931, he set fire to and burned the gin house and mill of J. B. Elrod & Son, in Cullman county, Ala., and that he did it at the instance of this defendant, who agreed to pay him for the act $10 in cash and to gin his cotton crop for the year 1931 free of charge. Through a…