Raine

Defendant appeals following jury conviction of second degree burglary (Pen. Code §§ 459, 460) and five counts of forgery (Pen. Code § 470). His main contention is that certain evidence used to convict him was obtained by an illegal search and that, without such evidence, the testimony of his accomplice was not sufficiently corroborated as required by Penal Code section 1111.

Seymore, the accomplice, testified that he and appellant broke into the Dennis Roofing Company, in Richmond, about midnight on December 22, 1964. They took a television set, some credit cards and identification cards issued to Gilbert or Delphine Dennis, numerous keys and tools, and some blank company bank checks, several of which appellant filled out while still on the burglarized premises.

The next day appellant and his wife cashed four of these checks at four different stores in Walnut Creek. Seymore used a fifth check to buy a used car. The forgery counts are based on these five transactions.

On the evening of March 10, 1965, appellant’s wife requested a room for two persons at the Tahoe Sands Motel. She signed the registration card as “Mrs. D. Dennis,” of “Dennis Roofing Co.,” and gave her residence…