Case ID: ga_99/html/0195-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PHIPPS v. THE STATE.
    March 23, 1896.
    Indictment for burglary. Before Judge Milner. Catoosa superior court. Eebruary term, 1896.
    
      W. H. Payne, for plaintiff in error. A. W. Fite, 'scMoitor-gemral, by A. 8. Johnson, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

The evidence in this case failed to meet the re» quirements of the established rule, that in order to convict one of a felony upon the testimony of an accomplice, that testimony must be corroborated by other evidence connecting the accused with the perpetration of the crime; and consequently it was error to deny a new trial. Judgment reversed.