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Independent corroboration

Independent corroboration, independent evidence must not only make it safe to believe that the crime was committed but must in some way reasonably connect or had to connect the accused with it by confirming in some material particular the testimony of the accomplice or complaint that the accused committed the crime, Rameshwar Kalyan Singh v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1952 SC 54 (57). (Indian Evidence Act, 1872, s. 133)...

Corroboration

Corroboration, evidence in support of principal evidence, e.g., in addition to that of the mother, to charge the father of an illegitimate child under the Bastardy Acts. See AFFILIATION.In an action for breach of promise of marriage the plaintiff may give evidence, but cannot recover a verdict unless corroborated by other material evidence in support of the promise, 32 & 33 Vict. c. 68, s. 2. See MARRIAGE, PROMISE OF. Corroboration is also required in certain cases under the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69(, ss. 2, 3, and 4 and also by s. 15 (1), (2) of the (English) Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, 1904 (4 Edw. 7, c. 15). By the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 1), s. 38, the evidence of children of tender years, though not given on oath, needs corroboration. See UNUS NULLUS RULE.of a witness's testimony must be afforded by means of independent evidence which implicated by connecting or tending to connect him in a...

Approver, or Prover

Approver, or Prover [fr. approver, Fr., to consent unto], an accomplice in crime who accuses others of the same offence, and is admitted as a witness as the discretion of the Court to give evidence against his companions in guilt. He is vulgarly called 'King's evidence.' This testimony must necessarily be of an unsatisfactory nature, and the practice is for Judges to leave it to juries with the direction not to believe it unless corroborated in some material particular by independent untainted testimony [In re Meunier, 1894 (2) QB 415]....

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