Conway v. State

The appellant prosecutes this appeal from a judgment sentencing him to prison for the crime of manslaughter.

He was jointly indicted with one George Melrose, and the-latter was permitted to testify as a witness. In this there was no error. At common law the weight of modern authority is, that an accomplice may testify for the prosecution,, if he consents to do so. A recent writer says : “A few cases decide that an accomplice who has not b'een indicted is competent ; but the great weight of authority raises no distinction between accomplices who have been, and those who have-not been indicted.”…