Cheney v. State
Ohio Supreme Court
Cheney v. State, 7 Ohio 222 (Ohio 1835)
Lane
Cheney v. State
Opinion of the Court
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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- John Cheney v. State of Ohio
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