Askea v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Accomplice. Witness. Husband and Wife. Before Judge Estes. Habersham Superior Court. March Adjourned Term, 1885. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandeord, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was indicted and found guilty of cattle stealing, and he complains that he was improperly convicted, because the main evidence against him was that of one Mansfield, who had been convicted of the same offense and was an accomplice.
The record shows that the corpus delicti was shown by the testimony of the prosecutor. The wife of Mansfield corroborated him in this, that plaintiff in error came to Mansfield’s house on the morning of the day the offense was committed, and they went off together; that the accused came back at or near dark and carried off…
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