
    GRICE v. STATE.
    (No. 11276.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 12, 1927.
    1. Criminal law <&wkey;>5l I (1)— Corroborative evidence need not be sufficient to convict independent of accomplice’s testimony.
    Corroborative evidence need not be such as is sufficient to convict independent of evidence of accomplice.
    2. Burglary <&wkey;>4l(l) — Testimony of defendant’s possession of stolen property and flight, together with accomplice’s testimony that defendant brought property on premises, sustained conviction for burglary.
    In prosecution for burglary, testimony as to finding stolen articles in possession of defendant and accomplice, both of whom fled when premises were searched, and testimony by accomplice that property was brought on premises by defendant, was sufficient to connect defendant with commission of offense, and supported conviction.
    Commissioners’ Decision.
    Appeal from District Court, Wharton County; M. S. Munson, Judge.
    Sandy Grice was convicted of burglary, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Chas. C. Ingram, of Wharton, for appellant.
    Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   MARTIN, J.

A joint indictment was returned against appellant, Charles Brown, and Willie Warren, charging them with burglary.

No bills of exception are found in the record, and the only question presented on this appeal is whether or not the evidence is sufficient to convict the defendant of the commission of the crime charged in the indictment. Appellant insists that the verdict of , guilty is based solely upon the testimony of the accomplice Willie Warren.

It was shown by the state that one Edward Nelson had in his garage an automobile tire and a lap robe; that the two articles, with some others, were missing, and that a short time thereafter he found them both in the possession of the three defendants, Grice, Warren, and Brown; that, when he and a companion made a search of the premises where the said three defendants resided, they each fled and were afterwards captured.

Willie Warren testified that both the lap robe and the automobile tire were brought on the premises by appellant and Brown one night. The other two testified that the two articles were brought on the premises by Warren, who claimed he had bought them from a Dane, but whose name they did not remember.

Corroborative evidence need not be such as is sufficient to convict independent of that of the accomplice. If the rule required sufficient evidence to establish guilt aside from that of the accomplice, this would render the testimony of the accomplice wholly useless, as has been said many times. Wright v. State, 31 Tex. Cr. R. 354, 20 S. W. 756, 37 Am. St. Rep. 822; Jones v. State, 4 Tex. App. 529; Branch’s Penal Code, § 719.

We believe that the above testimony is amply sufficient to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense,’ and that the evidence as a whole supports the verdict of guilty.

The judgment is affirmed.

PER CURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court. 
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