Parsons v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Accomplices. Evidence. Res gestee. Before Judge Alexander. Laurens Superior Court. April Term, 1871. Parsons was indicted for being accessory before the fact to the offense of stealing certain cotton by one Jack Wright.
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Accomplices. Evidence. Res gestee. Before Judge Alexander. Laurens Superior Court. April Term, 1871. Parsons was indicted for being accessory before the fact to the offense of stealing certain cotton by one Jack Wright. Jack Wright testified, that he stole a bale of cotton from his employer’s place; that defendant urged him to do so, and he excused himself by saying he had no wagon; that defendant promised to send a wagon for it, and that, that night, a young man came with a wagon, and said that defendant had sent him ivith the wagon, and Jack put the cotton on the wagon and carried it to…
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
1. We see no error in the charge of the Court in this case. By our Code, section 3702, “the testimony of one witness is sufficient to establish a fact,” except in certain specified cases, one of which is, by the same section, declared to be “in any case of felony where the witness is an accomplice.” We do not think the charge of the Judge is objectionable, in that he said, that in cases of misdemeanor the accomplice is to be judged as other witnesses. It is contended that this was calculated to impress upon the minds of the jury the idea that they were to ctedit the accomplice,…
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