Case Name: The State v. Wesley and Jack Sprague, Appellants
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1899-05-09
Citations: 149 Mo. 425
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Wesley and Jack Sprague, Appellants.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 149
Pages: 425–426

Head Matter:
The State v. Wesley and Jack Sprague, Appellants.
Division Two,
May 9, 1899.
The ease of State v. Wesley Sprague, ante, p. 409, followed.
Appeal from Dent Circuit Court. — How. L. B- Woodside, Judge.
Beversed and remanded.
L. Judson and Wm. P. Elmer for appellants.
Edward C. Crow, Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
SHERWOOD, J.
This time Wesley and Jack were indicted for burglary and larceny perpetrated in the store house of Smith & Peck. They were convicted of burglary alone, however, and their respective punishments for such wrongdoing assessed at three years in the penitentiary.
The court, of its own motion, and over the objection and exception of defendants gave instruction 5 in relation to an accomplice which displays the same error as that commented on about instruction 4, in State v. Wesley Sprague (wherein Wesley was convicted of larceny of the goods of the Dent County Mercantile Company, and Jack acquitted).
The instruction in that case, as in this, did not define the word "corroboration."
Judgment reversed and cause remanded.
All concur.