People (Attorney General) v Carney and Another

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1953
• Date: 01 January 1953
• Court: Court of Criminal Appeal

C. C. A.

The People (Attorney General)

and

Mulcahy and Carney

Two persons tried jointly -Application for separate trial refused - Larceny -Alternative count of receiving - Necessity for evidence that receiver of stolen goods did not steal them - Whether case one of larceny or nothing -Credibility of witness a matter for the jury -Comment thereon by Judge - Evidence of accomplice -No corroboration - Necessity for warning to jury of danger of convicting on such evidence -Whether a witness be an accomplice or not a matter for the jury - Larceny Act, 1916 (6 7 Geo. 5, c.50) s. 25 (1), s. 33 (1).

M. and C. were tried jointly on charges of housebreaking and larceny, and feloniously receiving. They were acquittedon the count of housebreaking and larceny but found guilty on...