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"State's evidence" Quotes from Famous Books

... bewailed. "I never done him a meanness. I kep' my mouth shut when they got me an' wouldn't tell who was in with me. Tha's one reason they soaked me with so long a sentence. They was after Jake. They kep' at me to turn state's evidence an' get a short term. But o' course I couldn't ...

— The Fighting Edge • William MacLeod Raine

... before our court was ever urged to turn state's evidence against his partners in crime—much less rewarded for doing so or punished for refusing. Each was encouraged to "snitch" ...

— The Minister and the Boy • Allan Hoben

... fifteen thousand dollars,[24] was all recovered, and the murderers taken to St. Louis, where some were hung and some imprisoned, the doctor escaping the death penalty by turning state's evidence. His sentence was incarceration in the penitentiary, from which he was pardoned after remaining there two years. Hobbs met the doctor some years after in San Francisco. He was then leading an honest life, publishing a newspaper, and begged ...

— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman

... anything else—he knows where the marshals get their recruits of deputies. He knows that the majority of these upholders of the law were once lawbreakers, horse thieves, rustlers, highwaymen, and outlaws like himself, and that they gained their positions and immunity by turning state's evidence, by turning traitor and delivering up their comrades to imprisonment and death. He knows that some day—unless he is shot first—his Judas will set to work, the trap will be laid, and he will be the surprised instead of a surpriser ...

— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry