R v John Turner

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtHigh Court of Chancery
Judgment Date01 January 1832
Date01 January 1832

English Reports Citation: 168 E.R. 1298

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Rex
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John Turner

S C 1 Lew C C. 119 Referred to, R. v Pym, 1846, 1 Cox C C 339, R v. Clark, 1853, 6 Cox C C 210

1832. rex t john turner (On an indictment against an accessary, a confession by the principal is not admissible in evidence to prove the guilt of the principal, it must be pro\ed uliundc, especially if the principal be alive Semble, a conviction of the principal upon a plea of guilty will not be evidence against the accessary to prove the principal guilty. Nor, semble, will a conviction on a plea of not guilty ) [S C 1 Lew C C. 119 Referred to, R. v Pym, 1846, 1 Cox C C 33(J , R v. Clark, 1853, 6 Cox C C 210 ] The prisoner was tried before Mr. Justice Patteson, at the Spring Assizes for the county of York, in the year 1832, upon an indictment which charged that the said John Turner, sixty sovereigns of the value of £60, of the goods and chattels of one Martha Clarke, by one Sarah Rich then lately before feloniously stolen, taken...

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