Judgment reversed, on the law, and indictment dismissed. The facts have been considered and, if all of the trial testimony had been properly admissible, would have been established.
Robert Burns, who was a witness at the defendant's trial, had previously been indicted for the identical crimes for which the defendant was on trial, and had pleaded guilty to a lesser offense in full satisfaction of the indictment. Furthermore, he was obviously one of the "two accomplices...
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