State v. Carr
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: T. A. Stephens, Judge. John A. Carr was convicted of the crime of offering to bribe one Thomas Huntington, a juror in a criminal action against Joseph Kelly, (State v. Kelly, 28 Or. 225,) and from the judgment upon such conviction brings this appeal.
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Appeal from Multnomah: T. A. Stephens, Judge. John A. Carr was convicted of the crime of offering to bribe one Thomas Huntington, a juror in a criminal action against Joseph Kelly, (State v. Kelly, 28 Or. 225,) and from the judgment upon such conviction brings this appeal. The verdict was based upon the evidence of Mrs. Huntington, the wife of the juror, who testified, in substance, that on the morning after her husband had been accepted as a juror the defendant called at her house, and, after telling her where the jurors boarded, asked her to go there and intercede with her husband for…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bean.
1. At common law juries might convict upon the testimony of an accomplice alone, if it carried conviction to their minds, although it was deemed so unreliable that the courts generally advised them not to do so unless it was corroborated by other evidence. But the credit to be given to the testimony of such a witness, and the corroboration necessary to render it satisfactory, were matters to be considered and determined by the jury, and, if they were fully convinced thereby, the conviction was legal, though without other *394support than the testimony of an…
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