Case ID: ga_108/html/0773-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cobb, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Coney v. The State.
    Submitted March 20,
    Decided April 17, 1899.
    Indictment for assault with intent to rape. Before Judge Smith. Dodge superior court. September term, 1898.
    
      Roberts & Milner, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. F. DeLacy, solicitor-general, contra.
   Cobb, J.

When on the trial of an indictment for rape the State depended for a conviction solely upon the evidence of the alleged victim of the crime, and there was evidence strongly tending to impeach her and no evidence whatever of any facts or circumstances in any manner tending to corroborate her, it was erroneous to charge upon the subject of corroboration. Such an error in- such a case requires the granting of a new trial. Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.