State v. Reichert

This record discloses that the Court of Appeals reversed the common pleas court upon the sole ground of failure to instruct the jury that it should not convict upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice, and found no other prejudicial error in the record.

In the face of such a finding, therefore, the chief question for this court to determine is, Did failure of the court to instruct the jury as to the propriety and necessity of corroboration of the testimony of the accomplices constitute reversible error? The fact that the request was refused before argument is not urged, as that is…