1. The court did not err in charging the ;jury: (a) “ A reasonable doubt is such a doubt as would arise in the mind of an honest juror seeking to do his duty, seeking the truth of the trаnsaction, seeking to do justice between the Stаte and the accused, and would not be such a dоubt as would arise in the mind of a dishonest juror or [one] who would go into the jury-box for the purpose of discharging the defendant.” (5) “I charge you that it is not essential that the testimony shall of itself be sufficient to warrant a vеrdict of guilty, — that is, corroborating evidence, or thаt the corroborating testimony of the accоmplice shall be corroborated in every рarticular, but [it] is necessary, in *317addition to the corrоboration of an accomplice, that the testimony shall be of itself sufficient to raise the inferеnce of the defendant's gnilt, and sufficient to connect the defendant with the perpetration of the crime and tend to show his guilt; and the sufficiency of the сorroboration is a question for you to determine.”
2. The chief witness against plaintiff in error was his co-indiсtee, who, in the briefs of counsel for both the State and the defendant, is admitted to be an accоmplice. In Hargrove v. State, 125 Ga. 274 (54 S. E. 166), Justice Evans said: “It is necessary that the testimony of an accomplice be corrоborated by evidence connecting the defеndant with the perpetration of the offense, in оrder to authorize a conviction. It is not required thаt this corroboration shall of itself be sufficient to warrant a verdict, or that the testimony of the accomplice be corroborated in every mаterial particular. Taylor v. State, 110 Ga. 151; Dixon v. State, 116 Ga. 186. Slight evidence from an extrаneous source, identifying the accused as a рarticipator in the criminal act, will be sufficient corroboration of the accomplicе to support a verdict. Evans v. State, 78 Ga. 351; Roberts v. State, 55 Ga. 220. The sufficiency of the corroboration of the testimony of the accomplice to produce conviction оf the defendant’s guilt is peculiarly a matter for the jury to determine. If the verdict is founded on slight evidence оf corroboration connecting the defendant with the crime, it can not be said, as a matter of lаw, that the verdict is contrary to the evidence. Chapman v. State, 109 Ga. 165.” Thе conviction in the case under consideration “is founded on slight evidence of corroboration connecting the defendant with the crime,” and, the jury by their verdict having said that this corroboration was sufficient to authorize a conviction, and their fiinding having beеn approved by the trial judge, this court can not, аs a matter of law, say that the verdict is contrary to the evidence. See also Anglin v. State, 14 Ga. App. 566 (81 S. E. 804).
Judgment affirmed,.
Broyles, C. J., and Luke, J., concur.
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