State v. Dudoussat
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Ferguson, J. I. The only question properly put in issue by the first bill is whether the corroboration of an apparent or feigned accomplice must be limited to evidence which tends to confirm the testimony of the feigned accomplice upon a point material to the issue in the sense that it tends to prove the guilt of the defendant; or, whether he is to be treated as an ordinary witness, and, where a design to…
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APPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Ferguson, J. I. The only question properly put in issue by the first bill is whether the corroboration of an apparent or feigned accomplice must be limited to evidence which tends to confirm the testimony of the feigned accomplice upon a point material to the issue in the sense that it tends to prove the guilt of the defendant; or, whether he is to be treated as an ordinary witness, and, where a design to misrepresent from some motive or relationship is imputed to him, he is to be permitted to show, in order to repel such…
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Dissenting Opinion.
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Watkins, J.
The first objection, I think well taken by defendant’s counsel, is that which relates to the admissibility of the *1001testimony of Henry Lochte. It was offered on the part of the State for the avowed purpose of confirming the truthfulness and general veracity of one Charles Sherman, the only witness by whom the 'corpus delicti was proven. This testimony was offered in rebuttal, after the close of the defendant’s evidence; and by it, the State proposed to show that Sherman had made to him, Lochte, on several occasions prior to the defendant’s commission of the crime…
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- Coffin v. AndersonIndiana Supreme Court · 1837
- State v. VincentSupreme Court of Iowa · 1868
- State v. WardSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1881
- People v. BolangerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1886
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