Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
The court's failure to charge that witnesses Stephen Raia, Patrick Ryder and Jane Otto were accomplices as a matter of law was error. In a conference among the court, defense counsel and the prosecuting attorney prior to the charge, it was agreed that the jury would be instructed that said witnesses were accomplices as a matter of law. Contrary to that agreement, however, the court charged that their status was to...
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