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Criminal evidence – Mutual corroboration. High Court of Justiciary: In a case in which the accused was charged with two charges of lewd and libidinous practices at common law, one involving his nephew and the other his niece, and the Crown relied on mutual corroboration of each charge by the other for a sufficiency of evidence on each charge, the court upheld a submission of no case to answer and acquitted the accused of both charges, concluding that the underlying similarity of conduct in the two charges was lacking, with the consequence that the jury would not be entitled to apply the rule of mutual corroboration.
Criminal evidence – Mutual corroboration. High Court of Justiciary: In a case in which the accused was charged with two charges of lewd and libidinous practices at common law, one involving his nephew and the other his niece, and the Crown relied on mutual corroboration of each charge by the other for a sufficiency of evidence on each charge, the court upheld a submission of no case to answer and acquitted the accused of both charges, concluding that the underlying similarity of conduct in the two charges was lacking, with the consequence that the jury would not be entitled to apply the rule of mutual corroboration.
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