Patterson v. State

Russell, Judge.

1. A motion to rule out testimony of a witness who is a co-indictee on the ground that such testimony shows him to be an accomplice is not a legal ground of objection, but the argument will be considered in connection with the general grounds of the motion for a new trial which contend that there is insufficient corroboration to warrant a conviction. The State would by-pass this argument by the device of considering Dockery, the witness, not as an accomplice but merely an accessory after the fact whose testimony would need no corroboration. Mills v. State, 193 Ga. 139, 148 (17…