006

Refused

20

Object

An accomplice is one who aids in the commission of
a crime, and when he consents to be a witness, and
testifies to his own part in it, as well as that of the
prisoner at the bar, the jury alone are to decide how
much weight his testimony shall have; but it is the
duty of the court to caution the jury to consider the
relation of the witness to the crime, and the turpitude of
his confessed conduct; and to weigh well the consideration
that if he has been guilty of the crime stated in his
testimony, he may not possess those moral qualities
that can give any assurance of the truth of his state-
ments as a witness.