The court charged that the complaining witness was an accomplice and that defendant could not be convicted upon the accomplice's testimony as to the acts charged except upon "independent and corroborative proof tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the alleged crimes". (See Code Crim. Pro., § 399.) Defendant's only exception to the charge (repeated in but slightly different form), and his sole objection urged on this appeal, was as to the court's refusal...
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