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§ 60.22  Rules of evidence; corroboration of accomplice testimony.
  1.  A defendant may not be convicted of any offense upon the testimony
of  an  accomplice  unsupported  by  corroborative  evidence  tending to
connect the defendant with the commission of such offense.
  2.   An "accomplice"  means  a  witness  in  a  criminal  action  who,
according  to  evidence  adduced  in  such  action,  may  reasonably  be
considered to have participated in:

(a) The offense charged; or

(b) An offense based upon the same or some of the same facts or conduct which constitute the offense charged. 3. A witness who is an accomplice as defined in subdivision two is no less such because a prosecution or conviction of himself would be barred or precluded by some defense or exemption, such as infancy, immunity or previous prosecution, amounting to a collateral impediment to such a prosecution or conviction, not affecting the conclusion that such witness engaged in the conduct constituting the offense with the mental state required for the commission thereof.