Henson

People v. Henson

Good Law
1917 Cal. App. LEXIS 571·32 Cal. App. 600·163 P. 685
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJanuary 26, 1917Crim. No. 518.California382 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Conrey, J.

The defendant was convicted of the crime of robbery and has been sentenced to a term in the state prison. He appeals from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

Appellant claims that the court erred in admitting testimony of confessions made by him, because the people had failed to establish the corpus delicti. This claim is manifestly wrong. The first witness at the trial was E. Lubansky, the victim of the robbery, who testified fully to the facts showing that he was held up and robbed at the time and place referred to in the information. There is no merit in the proposition of counsel for appellant that corroboration of the testimony of Lubansky was legally necessary.

It is next complained that the testimony of the witness Brown showed that he was an accomplice, and that his testimony was not corroborated. But the record shows that in so far as the testimony of the witness Brown had any tendency to connect the defendant with the commission of the crime, such testimony was amply corroborated by other evidence “which in itself, and without the aid of the testimony of the accomplice, tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense.”…

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