State v. Lucio

Pro Tern.

Defendant Lucio appealed his conviction of two counts of robbery on the ground that the court refused to give an instruction requested by the defendant to the following effect:

It is the law that the testimony of an accomplice ought to be viewed with distrust. This does not mean that you may arbitrarily disregard such testimony, but you should give to it the weight to which you find it to be entitled after examining it with care and in the light of all the evidence in the case.

We find that the trial court correctly refused to give the foregoing instruction, and affirm.

On October 21,…