Attorney General (The People) v Williams
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Judgment Date | 19 April 1940 |
| Date | 19 April 1940 |
| Court | Supreme Court |
(S.C.),
The People (Attorney-General)
and
Williams
Girl under 15 years - Evidence of prosecutrix - Absence of corroboration - Judge's charge - Necessity for warning the jury - Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1935 (No. 6 of 1935), s. 1, sub-s. 1.
Where, on a charge of unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 15 years of age, there is no corroboration of the evidence of the prosecutrix, the attention of the jury should be directed by the Judge to the absence of corroboration and a warning should be given...
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