People v. Maybee

Two questions confront us in this appeal from a jury conviction of manslaughter in violation of MCLA 750.321; MSA 28.553. The first issue is the question of whether the trial court committed reversible error in failing to give, sua sponte, a cautionary jury instruction concerning the credibility of accomplice testimony. The second is whether the trial court committed reversible error under the facts of this case in permitting a *270codefendant, being tried without a jury and whose statements were shown to be inconsistent, to testify in the jury trial of defendant after the code-fendant had…