State v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Missouri
•Appeal from Washington Circuit Court. Wm. Edwards and others were indicted under the sixth section of the seventh article of the act concerning crimes and punishments, (R. C. 1845.) The indictment is set out in the opinion of the court. Before trial, Wm. Edwards applied for and obtained a change of venue to Washington county. Other defendants took a change of venue to other counties.
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•Appeal from Washington Circuit Court. Wm. Edwards and others were indicted under the sixth section of the seventh article of the act concerning crimes and punishments, (R. C. 1845.) The indictment is set out in the opinion of the court. Before trial, Wm. Edwards applied for and obtained a change of venue to Washington county. Other defendants took a change of venue to other counties. At the trial of Edwards, he called as witnesses two of the parties who were indicted with him. He offered to show by oral testimony that a nol. pros, was entered as to one, and it was admitted to be within the…
1Opinion of the CourtRyland, Judge
In this case, there are several minor questions which I will dispose of, before I mention the only one of any importance. In the first place, the persons whom the defendant introduced and wished to have examined as witnesses for him, were properly-excluded by the court. They were parties to the indictment— co-indictees, and as such were not competent witnesses for their fellow-defendant. The defendant’s counsel offered to prove, by parol evidence, that one of these persons had heen convicted, and to the prosecution against the other a nolle prosequi had been entered, and contends, in this…
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