PEOPLE v. CALDWELL

Docket No. 12767.

253 Cal.App.2d 195 (1967)

61 Cal. Rptr. 259

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CONNELL CALDWELL, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

August 3, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erling J. Hovden and Richard S. Buckley, Public Defenders, Lothair Schoenheit and James L. McCormick, Deputy Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Michael J. Smolen, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


FILES, P.J.

After a court trial defendant was convicted of forgery (Pen. Code, § 470) and he has appealed from the judgment.1 [1] We have concluded that the judgment must be reversed because defendant's connection with the offense was shown only by the testimony of an accomplice who was not corroborated as Penal Code section 1111 requires.2

Mrs. McCoy, aged 15, testified in substance...

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