Nanney v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for theft of property of the value of more than $50; punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

The state’s attorney with this court has expressed in writing his opinion that there is not in this record sufficient evidence to corroborate the accomplice witness Cawthron. We have carefully examined the testimony and believe the position taken to be correct.

The rule is statutory and settled by many decisions of the courts, that there must be other evidence than that of the accomplice which tends to connect the accused with the commission of the offense; and that…