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 | New York (State)., New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - 1850 - 562 pages
...in perfect justice, would have returned to the absurd and exploded rules of the common law. § 454. A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an...evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offence ; and the corroboration is not sufficient, if it merely show the commission... | |
 | 1888 - 564 pages
...that there was evidence to corroborate the accomplice, within Code Crim. Proc. NY, § 399, providing that " a conviction cannot be had upon the testimony...evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of th» crime." June 28, 1887. People v. Elliott. Opinion by Earl, J. _ ABSTRACTS OF VARIOUS... | |
 | 1918 - 2060 pages
...court did not charge the law as found in section 5884. Rev. Laws Okl. 1910, which reads as follows : "A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of...evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense, and the corroboration is not sufficient if It merely shows the commission... | |
 | New York (State). - 1881 - 278 pages
...proved ; but any other overt act, not alleged in the indictment, may be given in evidence. § 399. A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an...evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime ; and the corroboration is not suffi- Q; cienf, if it merely show the commission... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1883 - 840 pages
...(Mosher v. People, 19 Hun, 625.) The Code of Criminal Procedure provides that — A conviction can not be had upon the testimony of an accomplice, unless...evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime ; and the corroboration is not sufficient, if it merely show the commission... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - 1883 - 666 pages
...Criminal Procedure, prohibiting a conviction " upon the testimony of an accomplice, unless he be Digest. corroborated by such other evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of a cri.me," she could aot be convicted upon the uncorroborated testimony of a witness:... | |
 | 1915 - 600 pages
...solely that of accomplices and is, therefore, insufficient to warrant a conviction under section 899 of the Code of Criminal Procedure which provides that...prosecution the trial court charged as matter of law that Captain Walsh, Eugene Fox, George and Howard Sipp, and the two lawyers, Newell and Rouss, were accomplices,... | |
 | 1896 - 620 pages
...details it, makes her an accomplice with the defendant, and brings her evidence under the condemnation of section 399 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which...evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of a crime." Under this statute, it matters not how consistent the narration of the accomplice,... | |
 | 1904 - 646 pages
...testimony of the person injured, unsupported by other evidence, while the statute under consideration provides that a conviction cannot be had upon the...evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime. Although under those statutes the rule is different as to the amount of corroboration... | |
 | New York (State) - 1884 - 542 pages
...in the indictment, may be given in evidence. 1 NY Cr. L., 337. § 399. Testimony of accomplice. — A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an...evidence as tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime. See Peo. v. Davis, 21 Wend., 309 ; Peo. v. Costello, 1 Den., 83 ; Lindsay... | |
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