Legal Opinion · Dissent

Nash v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 25, 1911No. 459Published

The opinion states the case.

1DissentDavidson, Presiding Judge

(dissenting).—It is urgently insisted by the Assistant Attorney-General, joined by Mr. Lattimore, the district attorney of the judicial district from which this appeal comes, in a motion for rehearing filed by the State, that this court is in error in reversing the judgment of the lower court. After a careful review of the record I can not agree with the views urged in the motion. To affirm the judgment would be to hold that no corroboration is necessary in a seduction case, thereby usurping the power of the law-making department of the State and overthrowing and destroying a plainly written…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. People v. ClarkMichigan Supreme Court · 1876
  2. Simmons v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1909
  3. State v. ReevesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1888
  4. State v. HillSupreme Court of Missouri · 1886
  5. People v. BrewerMichigan Supreme Court · 1873

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