Chester v. State

In his amended motion for new trial, the defendant assigns as error the failure of the trial court to charge the jury in substance the principle of law that, in order for evidence or circumstances to be deemed as corroboration of a confession by the defendant, the same must connect the accused definitely with the perpetration of the offense which it is claimed he confessed to perpetrating. This is the rule in reference to the corroboration of testimony of an accomplice, but it is not the rule in reference to the corroboration of a confession. Cochran v. State, 113 Ga. 726 (7), 736 (39 S. E.…