 The degree of credit which ought to be given to the testimony of an accomplice is a matter exclusively within the province of the jury.  Massachusetts Reports - Page 433by Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 940 pages
...quoted, in our judgment, fairly expresses the law on the subject and is as follows: "The degree of eredit which ought to be given to the testimony of an accomplice...the province of the jury. It has sometimes been said that they ought not to believe him unless his testimony is corroborated by other evidence, and without... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1174 pages
...Freeman. The rule in such a cast was fairly stated by the trial court In charging the jury. He said: ? 9 T:Z n}x SXV锥 :/ 9A +\z s n i' $( ! S i/ % t* i' d 1 s [* >P j d K %xA W _" *7 N:pj T SG but great caution should be used in weighing such testimony, and the jury should not convict upon the... | |
 | Criminal law - 1897 - 630 pages
...State v. Patterson, 34 P. 784 ; 52 Kan. 335 ; Woods v. Commonwealth (Va.), 11 SE 798 ; 86 Va. 929. The degree of credit which ought to be given to the testimony of an accomplice is for the jury. State v. Patterson, 34 P. 784 ; 52 Kan. 335. The judge, if requested, should advise the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 1150 pages
...uncorroborat-' ed evidence, if otherwise sufficient, will sustain a verdict of guilty, but the credit to be given to the testimony of an accomplice is a matter for the determination of the jury. 2. Witnesses ф=>344(1) — Evidence that accomplice was member... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Isaac Hayes Shields - Criminal law - 1883 - 618 pages
...the rule is not strictly correct, in theory at least. The degree of credit that should be given to an accomplice, is a matter exclusively within the province of the jury. It is competent for them to convict on his uncorroborated testimony, but the source of such evidence is... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1895 - 894 pages
...evidence of an accomplice is received, the degree of credit which ought to be given to his testimony is a matter exclusively within the province of the jury. It has sometimes been said, that they ought not to believe him, unless his testimony is corroborated by other evidence ; and, without... | |
 | Michel Mathieu - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 614 pages
...vol. 1, page 305, Balmore's case ; (Jreenleaf, on Evidence, vol. 1, pages 425 et 426, n08 379, 380 : " The degree of credit which ought to be given to the...matter exclusively within the province of the jury." Greenleaf, vol. 1, page 434, n° 389. Powell s Law of Evidence, pages 37 et 41 ; Hale, PC, vol. 2,... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1899 - 1190 pages
...said that they ought not to believe him, unless his testimony is corroborated by other evidence ; l and, without doubt, great caution in weighing such testimony is dictated by prudence and good reason. But there is no such rule of law; it being expressly conceded that the jury may, if they... | |
 | David Thomas Marvel, John W. Houston, Samuel Maxwell Harrington, James Pennewill, William Henry Boyce, William Watson Harrington, Charles L. Terry, William J. Storey - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 720 pages
...of the prisoner, and the legal presumption of his innocence." 1 Qreenleaf an Evidence, Sec. 267. " The degree of credit which ought to be given to the...the province of the jury. It has sometimes been said that they ought not to believe him, unless his testimony is corroborated by other evidence; and, without... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 952 pages
...929. 11 SE Rep. 798, quoting from Greenleaf on Evidence, "The degree of credit, which ought to Ъе given to the testimony of an accomplice. Is a matter...the province of the jury. It has sometimes been said that they ought not to believe him. unless his testimony is corroborated by other evidence; and, without... | |
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