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PEOPLE v. DAWKINS

151 A.D.2d 495 (1989)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Gerald Dawkins, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

June 5, 1989

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant argues that the independent evidence tending to connect him to the crime, as required by CPL 60.22 (1), was legally insufficient to corroborate the testimony of his accomplice Gregory Baldwin. We disagree. The requisite independent proof need only connect the defendant to the commission of the crime; it need not prove that he committed it (see, People v Hudson...

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