Butts v. State

1. Where a witness for the State is an aecompliee, the failure of the trial judge to instruct the jury as to what wo'uld, under the law, constitute an accomplice, or to advise them that the testimony of an accomplice alone is insufficient to convict the accused, is not reversible error, where it does not appear that there was a timely written request for such instruction. Baker v. State, ante, 578 (81 S. E. 805).

2. To sustain a conviction upon the testimony of an accomplice, there must be corroborating circumstances which, in themselves and independently of the testimony of the accomplice,…