Pace v. State

Frank FIolt, Justice.

Following a jury trial, appellant was found guilty of possession of heroin with intent to deliver in violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. §§ 82-2604,82-2605, and 82-2617 (a) (1) (i) (Repl. 1977) and was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment. We agree with his contention that the conviction must be reversed inasmuch as the testimony of his admitted accomplice, the only witness who testified as to his commission of the crime, was insufficiently corroborated.

Ark. Stat. Ann. § 43-2116 (Repl. 1977) provides that a felony conviction cannot be had “upon the testimony of an accomplice…