Case Number
CrimA 77/64
Date Decided
5-22-1964
Decision Type
Appellate
Document Type
Full Opinion
Abstract
The appellant was convicted on five counts under the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. 1950. On two of these counts he was convicted on the strength of the evidence of a single witness, found to be credible by the lower court. He appealed against conviction.
Held, granting the appeal, that in criminal matters, a court can convict on the evidence of a single witness without corroboration, after duly "cautioning" itself as to its credibility per se and considering its weight and relevance in the whole complex of evidence tendered by the prosecution with regard to the circumstances of the case and the defendant's participation therein. The best evidence of events that occurred many years prior to trial is written evidence, especially when recollection of these events are bound. as in the present case, to arouse profound emotion.
Keywords
Evidence -- Admissibility, Evidence -- Confessions, Evidence -- Testimony
Recommended Citation
Cohn, Haim Herman; Landau, Moshe; and Olshan, Yitzhak, "Berenblat v. Attorney General" (1964). Translated Opinions. 91.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/iscp-opinions/91
