The Canadian Law Times

From 1900 to 1908 includes the "Annual digest of Canadian cases ... decided in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the Supreme and Exchequer Courts of Canada, and in the courts of the provinces ... Edited by Edward B. Brown."

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

From 1900 to 1908 includes the "Annual digest of Canadian cases ... decided in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the Supreme and Exchequer Courts of Canada, and in the courts of the provinces ... Edited by Edward B. Brown."

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE AS REQUIRED BY STATUTE By Frank H. Curran. (Continued from March issue.) Part Three?Instances Under The Canadian Crimi- Nal Code, R. S. C. (1906), c. 146, ss. 1002, 1003. In this field there is a large number of reported cases covering most of the various parts of the sections concerned, and selection is more or less difficult; but the state of the law on the subject seems fairly clear. Consequently some idea may be gained from the cases here presented. 1002. Cases in which evidence of one witness must be corroborated. ? No person accused of any offence under any of tbe hereunder-mentioned sections shall be convicted upon the evidence of one witness, unless such witness is corroborated in some material particular by evidence implicating the accused. The requirement is some evidence in corroboration of the testimony of the witness mainly considered by the Crown for its case. The corroboration is to .be of a material particular, so that the Court may conclude reasonably from the evidence at hand that the accused committed the act charged. It may show a fact which tends to the probability of the truth of the main witness's testimony on any material point, even although, otherwise the fact may be irrelevant to the issue to be tried, and although in point of time of actual occurrence the fact in question happened before the fact which it tends to corroborate.88 Although the evidence in corroboration usually is gained from the oral testimony of another witness, it may be obtained, generally speaking, ' in some cases, from documents. For example, it has been held that Re Burr, 13 .O. L. R. 485, 12 C. C. C. 103. Wilfvx v. (lotfrey, 26 L. T. N. S. 4S1: R. v. Rabmovitch. 23 C. C. C. 496 (Mnn); ]rccn v. McLeod. 23 A. R. (Ont.) 676. th...

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