(Download) "People V. Szeto" by Supreme Court Of California # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Szeto
- Author : Supreme Court Of California
- Release Date : January 11, 1981
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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Defendant appeals from judgment entered on a jury verdict convicting him of being an accessory to a felony (Pen. Code, § 32) and of possession of a sawed-off shotgun (Pen. Code, § 12020).*fn1 The principal question presented by his appeal is whether the testimony of an accomplice was sufficiently corroborated. The standard we must follow in reviewing this question is well settled. "Unless a reviewing court determines that the corroborating evidence should not have been admitted or that it could not reasonably tend to connect a defendant with the commission of a crime, the finding of the trier of fact on the issue of corroboration may not be disturbed on appeal." (People v. Perry (1972) 7 Cal. 3d 756, 774 [103 Cal. Rptr. 161, 499 P.2d 129]; original italics.) Because the corroborating evidence here was properly admitted