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that could be said is that the testimony
of a portion of the witnesses, those who
were participants in the massacre,
should be taken with great caution,
if uncorrobrated in any material point
by other evidence. Were such parties
unworthy of belief, the law would not
allow them to be put upon the witness
stand. The admission of accomplices
is fully justified by the necessity of
the case, and there was not and could
not have been any objection to their
introduction. Who else could tell
what took place upon that bloody field
but those who were present, willing or
unwilling? After their introduction,
you are to weigh their testimony and
sift the truth therefrom. Accomplices
are not to be disbelieved, simply because
they were accomplices, but you are to
weight their testimony in connection
with the other evidence, and being corroborated
in any material point by other
evidence, their testimony is entirely sufficient
to warrant a verdict in accordance
therewith.

In regard to admission said to have
been made by the prisoner, the rule of law