900 So. 2d 460 - Webster v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"The evidence of the witness, Nicholson, [which consisted mainly of the defendant's confession,] did tend to connect the prisoner with the commission of the offence, and thus fairly presented to the jury the credibility of the accomplice. The statute does not specify any other fact, testified to by an accomplice, which requires corroboration before it will authorize conviction, and we are not authorized to add other clauses to it. The corroboration, extending to this essential, the question of guilt or innocence should be allowed to be passed on by the jury."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tinker v. State

2. ““[The constitutionality of the statute] is not properly before this Court because it was raised for the first time in Greer’s posttrial motion for a judgment of acquittal or, in the alternative, a new trial. A constitutional challenge to the regularity of proceedings preliminary to trial must be timely and is waived if raised for the first time in a post-trial motion. See DeFries [v. State], 597 So.2d [742] at 747 [ (Ala.Crim.App.1992) ].””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 74 So. 3d 482 - Ex Parte State, Cr-10-0634 (ala.crim.app. 5-27-2011)