Dawley v. State

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a witness who had received a guilty verdict, but not a sentence, was still competent to testify because “it is the judgment of the Court, and not the verdict of the jury, that renders the accused legally infamous, and, hence, incompetent as a witness”

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Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1922-09-21· cited 38×
• Bacon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1886-01-15· cited 27×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1899-06-15· cited 6×
• District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department v. Porter
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2025-03-13

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• United States v. Lee
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Illinois· 1846-06-15· cited 18×