California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Dingle, C065118 (Cal. App. 2013):
Defendant cites People v. MacEwing (1955) 45 Cal.2d 218, an inapposite case where the trial court improperly instructed that the test for corroboration was whether independent evidence connected the defendant with the crime "or" satisfied the jury that the accomplice/witness was telling the truth. It was the disjunctive language that was
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