State v. Smith

The defendant makes several objections to the judgment in this ease, amongst which it is urged that there is no corroborating evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime charged, as is required in section 4560 of the Code, but that the verdict rests alone upon the uncorroborated testimony of the prosecuting witness. Each member of the court has examined the evidence with care, and we feel constrained to hold that there is an entire, absence of such corroboration as the statute requires. The prosecuting witness was a servant in the family of defendant’s father,…