The testimony of an accessory or accomplice shall be examined with distrust and given the weight the judge or the jury deems proper after examining the same with caution in the light of all the evidence submitted in the case. In jury cases the jury shall be given instructions to that effect.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 208, Part 2, p. 112; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 317, § 11.