Herring v. Ashby

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in an arson case, there must be other proof that the offense was committed to corroborate a confession by the defendant
• “A confession of a defendant, unless made in open court, will not warrant a conviction, unless accompanied with other proof that the offense was committed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).