State v. . Holland
Supreme Court of North Carolina
IndictmeNT for'Larceny tried at Spring Term, 1880, of Chatham Superior Court, before Seymour, J. The defendants, Harrison Holland and Jasper Fuller, were tried at said term, for larceny and receiving stolen goods. On the trial the state offered one Stephen Stone as a witness against the defendants. Stone was an accomplice and the bill of indictment had been sent against him and the others, but his name was erased from the bill.
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IndictmeNT for'Larceny tried at Spring Term, 1880, of Chatham Superior Court, before Seymour, J. The defendants, Harrison Holland and Jasper Fuller, were tried at said term, for larceny and receiving stolen goods. On the trial the state offered one Stephen Stone as a witness against the defendants. Stone was an accomplice and the bill of indictment had been sent against him and the others, but his name was erased from the bill. Stone testified to a state of facts -which if true proved the defend» ants’ guilt, but he was entirely uncorroborated. The defendants’ counsel asked the court to…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
We know that in England a defendant cannot' be convicted upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice. His testimony is’ allowed to go to the jury to be weighed by them for what it is worth, when supported by other evidence or by circumstances confirmatory of his testimony. But in this state a different doctrine obtains. Here, a defendant may be convicted upon the unsupported testimony of an accomplice.
In the case of State v. Haney, 2 Dev. & Bat., 390, this court held that “ the unsupported testimony of an accomplice, if it produces entire belief of the prisoner’s guilt, is sufficient…
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