Judgment affirmed.
The accomplice testimony was amply corroborated by independent evidence at the trial. For example, a police chemist testified that the tape used both to bind the corpse in a makeshift shroud before its disposal in the Hudson River and to cover blood stains in the appellant's car, where the victim was first assaulted, matched a roll of tape later recovered from the car's trunk. Such evidence clearly "tend[s] to connect" the appellant with the commission...
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