...connect the defendant with the commission of the offense. And such corroboration will be insufficient, if it merely shows the commission of the offense, or the circumstances of such commission, but they must connect the defendant with the taking." This refusal was erroneous....

...that "a conviction cannot be had on the testimony of an accomplice, unless he is corroborated by other evidence, which in itself, and without the aid of...accomplice, tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense." It was a doctrine as old as the Bible which, in Deuteronomy 19.15, holds,...

...upon the testimony of an accomplice unless such accomplice is corroborated by other evidence which of itself, and without the aid of the testimony of the...accomplice, tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense charged." Wood went on to point out: "The law views with distrust the testimony...

...unless corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the offense committed; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense." Hank's eyewitness testimony would not be enough for a conviction. Virtually everything he claimed in...