Newman v. State

1. “Where the only witness implicating the prisoners in the crime was himself avowedly guilty, the corroborating circumstances necessary to dispense with another witness must be such as go to connect the prisoner with the offense, and . . it is not sufficient that the witness is corroborated as to the time, place and circumstances of the transaction, if there be nothing to show any connection of the prisoners therewith except the statement of the accomplice.” OhMers V. State, 52 Ga. 106, 107. Where one voluntarily confesses the commission of a crime, though he have accomplices in the…