Government of the Canal Zone v. Norma Clotilde Thrush G. (Garces) and Dorothy Gartlan

Appellants are former employees of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service of the Canal Zone, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Exchange, an agency of the United States Government, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 371. They now urge reversal of the convictions on the following grounds: (1) the trial court failed to instruct the jury that under C.Z. Code tit. 6, § 42(a) “[a] conviction can not be had on the testimony of an accomplice unless his testimony is corroborated by other evidence which in itself and without the aid of the testimony of the accomplice, tends to connect the defendant…