Crisson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. "Witness. Accomplice. Alibi. Before Judge Knight. Lumpkin Superior Court. September Term, 1873. Mack W. Crisson was placed on trial for the offense of larceny from the house, alleged to have been committed on October 11th, 1871, by entering the gold quartz crushing mill of William R. Crisson and taking therefrom nine pennyweights of gold. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The case is sufficiently reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
1. The testimony of an accomplice may be sufficient to convict in a case below the grade of felony, and there was no error in .the charge of the court on this point: Parsons vs. The State, 43 Georgia, 197.
*5982. We place our judgment granting a new trial on what we think was an error in the charge which the judge certifies he made in reference to the testimony of the accomplice, Adams, when considered in connection with the evidence of Robinson, the witness introduced by the defendant to prove the alibi. If Robinson spoke the truth, the defendant could hardly be guilty — at least the…
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