State v. Sargent
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Indictment for breaking and entering a store and stealing therefrom. After introducing testimony tending to show the breaking and stealing and some other facts, the government introduced one Huston, who testified in chief among other things, that the offence was committed by himself and the defendant and one Whitehouse ; that, before the breaking, the defendant said he had got a place selected, and that Whitehouse was knowing to it; that Whitehouse was then out fishing, and,…
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Indictment for breaking and entering a store and stealing therefrom. After introducing testimony tending to show the breaking and stealing and some other facts, the government introduced one Huston, who testified in chief among other things, that the offence was committed by himself and the defendant and one Whitehouse ; that, before the breaking, the defendant said he had got a place selected, and that Whitehouse was knowing to it; that Whitehouse was then out fishing, and, as the defendant said, was to be back in a few days; that White-house got home on the morning of Thursday before the…
1Opinion of the CourtShepley, C. J.
When the testimony of an accomplice is introduced to convict a person of crime, its credibility may properly be tested by its conformity to truth in every particular statement.
If perceived to remain unimpeached, when its truth might be tested by facts, capable of being established by other testi*430mony, it would be more entitled to confidence, than it would be, if found not to be true, whenever its truth should be thus ascertained. As departures from truth were found to be more or less frequent or important, there would be occasion for greater or less confidence, that the essential particulars…
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