141 Ala. 66 | Ala. | 1904
The prosecutor, Jim Evans, testified to the fact, that about the 7th of December, 1902, three head of cattle had been taken from him, one of them a three-quarter Jersey milch cow, one a red bull and the other a steer about two- years old.
The evidence tended to show that the cow was found the next morning in- the pasture of one Barganier, near Cecil, eight or ten miles from prosecutor’s residence, and that- she had been left there by defendant, who claimed to own her. It further tended to show, as testified by one Frizzle, who transacted business for Bar-ganier, that about the bréale of day one .morning about the 7th of December, 1902, the defendant came to witness’ house at Cecil, with two cows, one a milch cow about three-quarter Jersey, and the other a red bull, and asked witness to let him put them in Mr. Barganier’s pasture, and he allowed him to do’so; that defendant made no explanatory statement about the cows; that about a half an hour afterwards, Pleas Bradley brought a steer and Henry Garrett brought a cow, .and by witness’ permission, placed them in the same pasture,
Pleas Bradley for the State testified that about December 7th, 1902, defendant suggested t/> him and Henry G-arrett, that the three go that night and steal some cows from Jim Evans and Jim Ribbins; that they agreed to go that night .and did go and steal" some cows, three from Evans and one from Ribbins; that the ones from Evans were a dark Jersey cow, a red bull and a steer, and the one from Ribbins, a milch cow, and carried them to Cecil and put them in Barganier’s pasture, etc. The evidence of this witness tended to' show that defendant, Garrett and himself stole the cattle; the identity of the one stolen with the one described in the indictment, and every fact, sufficient, if his evidence were believed by the jury, to authorize them to find the defendant guilty. “Defendant here separately and severally objected to, and moved to exclude said evidence, and each fact therein stated, on the ground that the same was illegal, irrelevant, immaterial and incompetent ; and on the ground that the witness shows that he was an accomplice, and that there was no other evidence corroborating the evidence of the witness tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime,” which objections were overruled.
The objection other than that the witness was an accomplice, was palpably without merit; and as for the latter objection, there was corroborating evidence besides Bradley’s tending to connect defendant with the commission of the offense. The evidence of the prosecutor and of Frizzle, corroborated that of Bradley in several particulars, sufficiently so as stated to connect defendant with the commission of the crime.
Affirmed.