California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Otash, 186 Cal.App.2d 132, 8 Cal.Rptr. 878 (Cal. App. 1960):
'The evidence need not corroborate the accomplice as to every fact to which he testifies but is fufficient if it deos not require interpretation and direction from the testimony of the accomplice yet tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense in such a way as reasonably may satisfy a jury that the accomplice is telling the truth; it must tend to implicate the defendant and therefore must relate to some act or fact which is an element of the crime but it is not necessary that the corroborative evidence
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In People v. Morrow, 127 Cal.App.2d 293, 296, 273 P.2d 696, 698 it was said:
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