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R v Hodgett

Northern Ireland Law Reports (Digests) Cited in 2 Precedent Map Related
Vincent
JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
Judgment Date01 January 1957
Date01 January 1957
CourtCourt of Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland)
C.C.A., N.I.
Reg
and
Hodgett

Corroboration - Evidence of an accomplice.

The appellant had been convicted of receiving stolen goods. The principal witness for the prosecution was an accomplice who had pleaded guilty to stealing the goods. The accomplice had given evidence of the following facts: (i) that he had sold stolen goods to the appellant at a certain price: (ii) that on several occasions he had, at the appellant's direction, signed receipt cards for the goods in the fictitious name in which the appellant had made out the cards; (iii) that when the thefts were discovered he had told the appellant, who thereupon stated that he would destroy the records of the transactions. It was submitted on behalf of the appellant that the corroborative evidence required was evidence relating to such parts of the accomplice's evidence as had been challenged by the defence and which remained a live issue between the Crown and the appellant, and that accordingly evidence which corroborated part of the evidence of the accomplice which was accepted by the defence was not such corroboration as is required by the rule relating to the corroboration of accomplices. Held, by the Court of Criminal Appeal (Lord MacDermott L.C.J., Curran L.J., and McVeigh J.); (i) that independent evidence that the price paid was that stated by the accomplice corroborated the evidence of the accomplice, and...

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