Case ID: ga-l-rep_1/html/0015-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blandford, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Askea vs. State.
    Simple Larceny, from Habersham. Criminal Law. Accomplice. Witness. Husband and Wife. (Before Judge Estes.)
   Blandford, J.

The rule that a conviction cannot be had on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice, applies only to cases of felony. In misdemeanors the complicity of the wituess goes to his credit; ana' in this case the defendant was convicted and sentenced for a misdemeanor. 43 Ga., 197.

(a.) The witness claimed to be an accomplice in this case was suffix ciently corroborated by other testimony.

H. S. West; Crane & Jones, for plaintiff in eoror.

W. S. Erwin, Solicitor General, by Haralson & Loring; C. H. Sut*ton, for the State..

(b.) The wife of an accomplice isa competent witness to testify to any fact in a criminal proceeding not aghinst her husband, if he be not ■on trial, and not affected by such testimony. Code, §3854. >

Judgment affirmed.