People v. Goldstein

Respecting the People’s accomplice-witness Reles, the trial judge in his charge to the jury said: “ Reles, as a matter of law, is an accomplice, and on his testimony alone there cannot be any conviction. You have heard a lot in this case about accomplices and corroboration, what is this and what is that? Now I will tell you what the law is. The statute says, ‘ A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless he be corroborated by such other evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime.’ That does not mean that there has to be independent…