State v. Streeter
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the State óf Nevada, Elko County. R. R. Bigelow, District Judge. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion and head notes. I. The testimony in this case introduced as corroborative of the testimony of the prosecuting witness, is wholly insufficient to connect the defendant with the commission'of the offense.
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Appeal from the District Court of the State óf Nevada, Elko County. R. R. Bigelow, District Judge. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion and head notes. I. The testimony in this case introduced as corroborative of the testimony of the prosecuting witness, is wholly insufficient to connect the defendant with the commission'of the offense. (Testimony reviewed.) The necessity of corroboration, and the character and extent of such corroboratory evidence, is the subject of statutory law in this state. (Gen. Stat 4245.) The law goes to the full extent of requiring the corroboratory evidence…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Murphy, J.
The appellant was convicted of incest. It is claimed that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict of the jury, in this: that the testimony of the prosecuting witness is uncorroborated, and that, therefore, a conviction was improperly had, relying upon the statutory provision.' Section 4245, Gen. Stat. Rev. reads: “ A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice, unless he be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration shall not be sufficient if it merely…
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