State v. Jonas

Citations

• 48 Wash. 133
• 92 P. 899
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 873

Syllabus

<p>Rape — -Evidence—Cobbobobation—Sufficiency. There is sufficient corroborative evidence, within Laws 1907, p. 896, requiring a prosecutrix for rape to be corroborated by evidence which “tends to convict the defendant of the commission of the offense,” where, in addition to evidence of similar acts during several years, circumstances and conditions showing opportunity at the time in question, and testimony of a physician establishing the fact of intercourse for a considerable period, it appeared that the defendant advised his wife to induce the prosecuting witness to leave the state, and his admissions showed that he had often taken liberties with the person of the prosecutrix.</p>