Cheney v. State

Ohio Supreme Court

Cheney v. State

7 Ohio 222

CourtOhio Supreme Court

DecidedDecember 15, 1835

StatusPublished

Cited by2 cases

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Cheney v. State, 7 Ohio 222 (Ohio 1835).

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Judge Lane

delivered the opinion of the court:

The testimony admitted, in this case, was altogether inadmissible. The intimacies of an accused person with suspicious or guilty persons do not prove him guilty of any particular crime; neither can a combination to steal horses, formed subsequently to the larceny on trial, be proved to establish that larceny. Evidence to convict a person of a specific offense, must bear upon that offense, and not upon others, or it avails nothing.

Judgment reversed; remanded for new trial.

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Judge Lane

delivered the opinion of the court:

The testimony admitted, in this case, was altogether inadmissible. The intimacies of an accused person with suspicious or guilty persons do not prove him guilty of any particular crime; neither can a combination to steal horses, formed subsequently to the larceny on trial, be proved to establish that larceny. Evidence to convict a person of a specific offense, must bear upon that offense, and not upon others, or it avails nothing.

Judgment reversed; remanded for new trial.

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