Dawley v. State

Dawley was indicted, jointly with three others, in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court, for larceny in the stealing of a cow. He was tried separately, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary.

On the trial, one Peltz, who had, at the same term of the Court, been convicted of burglary but not sentenced, and who was charged as an accomplice in the case with Dawley, was made a witness on the part of the state, and testified against Dawley under an assurance that if he disclosed the whole truth he might hope for favor in his own case.

It is objected that Peltz, having been convicted of burglary, was…