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State's evidence

noun

Evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings.

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"State's evidence" Quotes from Famous Books

... Henderson and Gus and the rest; and Peter picked up his "Times" one morning, and read on the front page some news that caused him to gasp. Joe Angell, one of the leaders in the dynamite conspiracy, had turned state's evidence! He had revealed to the District Attorney, not only the part which he himself had played in the plan to dynamite Nelse Ackerman's home, but he had told everything that the others had done—just how ...

— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair

... the lay-out. You have earned immunity, so far as this latest raid on you is concerned, by turning State's evidence. But you've got to move on, and keep ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... started the landslide against him. It began to be noised abroad that the government was going to wipe him out. Folks began to lose their terror of him, and after that his whole outfit began to want to turn State's evidence. He isn't sure of one of them now; can't tell when he will be shot in the back by one of his own scoundrels for that two thousand ...

— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine

Words linked to "State's evidence" : evidence, jurisprudence, law