Court Opinion

ID: 9718631
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:28:24.408803+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:00.859421
License: Public Domain

PORTER, Justice
(concurring specially).
Friesen testified that he, defendant, and Jack Beene were involved in the burglaries. In deciding whether to credit the accomplice’s testimony against defendant, the jury were entitled to consider not only the specific evidence cited by the majority but also the corroborative evidence against Beene, since Beene and defendant left the farmhouse and drove away together shortly before the burglaries. Beene’s implication tends to implicate defendant and thus serves as corroboration of the accomplice’s testimony. On that basis, I concur in the affirmance of defendant’s conviction.