People v. Curlee

Citations

• 53 Cal. 604
• 1879 Cal. LEXIS 58

Syllabus

<p>Evidence that Witness was an Accomelice.—Under the evidence given at the trial it was error in the Court to charge the jury that “there is no evidence in this case tending to show that the witness Brown was an accomplice in the commission of the offense with which the defendant is charged. [The evidence was to the effect that More had been murdered in accordance with a conspiracy; that prior to the murder the witness Brown had conversed freely with the conspirators about the details of the proposed murder, learning all about it; that they asked and expected him to participate, but he did not, though he accepted buckshot from them to be used on the occasion, and did not discourage the killing, nor give warning to More.— Reeobteb.]</p>