California Uncorroborated Testimony of Accomplice

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This is a sample jury instruction, whereby the court instructs the jury to regard certain testimony with hightened suspicion. Care must be taken that the language of the instruction is proper in your state and not subject to reversal on appeal.

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For example, if Chuck hires Lucy to be a lookout and a getaway driver, and then they commit the crime, Chuck is the principal and Lucy is an accomplice. Why? Because she drove to the scene, stayed there to look out for the police, and then drove Chuck away.

An ?accomplice witness? is someone who is both a witness to a crime and an accomplice in that same crime; one who participates with the defendant before, during, or after the commission of the crime.

"A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice, unless he be corroborated by such other evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime."

Categories of Accomplice: Principal offender of First Degree and Second Degree: The principal offender of first degree is a person who actually commits the crime. The principal offender of the second degree is a person who either abets or aids the commission of the crime.

Section 133 of the Indian Evidence Act says that an accomplice shall be a competent witness as against the accused person and a conviction the accused based on the testimony of an accomplice is valid even though it is not corroborated in material particulars.

The term Accomplice first appears in section 114 illustration (b) under the Indian Evidence Act 1872 which says that An accomplice is unworthy of credit unless he is corroborated in material particulars and subsequently again in section 133 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 it defines Accomplice shall be a competent ...

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California Uncorroborated Testimony of Accomplice