Childers v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Accomplice. Witness. Evidence. Before Judge Rice. Clarke Superior Court. February Adjourned Term, 1873. Robert Childers, Derry Crane, alias Derry Harris, Sandy Boothe and Frank Lee, were placed on trial for the offense of robbery, alleged to have been committed upon the person of William T. Green, on May 18th, 1873. The defendants pleaded not guilty.
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Criminal law. Accomplice. Witness. Evidence. Before Judge Rice. Clarke Superior Court. February Adjourned Term, 1873. Robert Childers, Derry Crane, alias Derry Harris, Sandy Boothe and Frank Lee, were placed on trial for the offense of robbery, alleged to have been committed upon the person of William T. Green, on May 18th, 1873. The defendants pleaded not guilty. William T. Green, the prosecutor, testified, in substance, as follows: On the 16th day of May, 1873, about twelve or one o’clock at night, he was knocked down and robbed of •$275 00 in United States currency, and one silver watch,…
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
Our Code, section 3755, provides as follows : “The testimony of a single witness is generally sufficient to establish a fact. Exceptions to this rule are made in specified cases; such as to convict of treason or perjury, in any case of felony where the only witness is an accomplice, and • to rebut a responsive statement in an answer in equity. In these cases (except in treason,) corroborating circumstances may dispense with another witness.”
In the case made by this record, which is a felony, tire sole witness connecting the defendants with the transaction is one who admits that…
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