 | Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals - Criminal law - 1921 - 796 pages
...Appellant in one of his bills of exceptions complains of the court's charge because it omitted to state that "the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense." This language is used in Article 801, relating to accomplice testimony. It is not used in Article 789,... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 608 pages
...to convict the accused of the commission of the offense. The corroboration is not sufficient where it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof. I am convinced, in view of the long settled policy of our law, that the expressions "competent evidence"... | |
 | Daniel Woolsey Crockett - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1014 pages
...corroborated by other evidence, which tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense, and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows...commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof (Rev. Laws 1910, 5 5884). Fairgrieve v. State, 10 Okla. Cr. 109, 134 Pac. 837. (1915) Whenever the... | |
 | Thomas Welburn Hughes - Criminal law - 1922 - 686 pages
...testimony of the accomplice, tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense, and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows...commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof." (Pen. Code, sec. mi.) The rules of law and principles of evidence controlling the testimony of accomplices,... | |
 | Panama Canal (Panama) - Law - 1922 - 336 pages
...testimony of the accomplice, tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient, if it merely...the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.28' I SEC. 198. The court may direct the defendant or defendants to be discharged, where it... | |
 | Henry Edward Randall - Instructions to juries - 1922 - 1258 pages
...unless corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the offense charged, and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of an offense. You are therefore instructed that you cannot find the defendant guilty upon the testimony... | |
 | California - Criminal law - 1923 - 424 pages
...such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows...commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof. An accomplice is hereby defined as one who is liable to prosecution for the identical offense charged... | |
 | California, James Manford Kerr - Criminal law - 1923 - 680 pages
...such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows...the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereol. An accomplice is hereby defined as one who is liable to prosecution for the identical offense... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1220 pages
...nor of the crime of conspiring with others to sell intoxicating liquor. The statute (CS § 8957) says that " * • * the corroboration is not sufficient If it merely shows the commission of the offense. * • * " The majority, in effect, hold that corroboration is sufficient which shows the commission... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1202 pages
...the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient if 229 P.-4 it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof. An accomplice is hereby defined as one who is liable to prosecution for the identical offense charged... | |
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... the corroboration is not sufficient, if it merely shows the commission of the offense, or the circumstances thereof. 
