king's evidence
Americannoun
noun
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An accomplice who has turned king's evidence usually receives a pardon, but has no legal right to exemption from punishment till he has actually received it.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
"But it is turning king's evidence," said the old man.
From The Rebel of the School by Meade, L. T.
You thought that, in this respect, you were singular; but now, that you see I have turned king's evidence, you are conscious that what I aver is true.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
His go-between was Lütterloh, a Brunswicker, who had been a crimping-agent, then a servant, who was a spy of France and Mr. Franklin, and who turned king's evidence on La Motte, and hanged him.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
He afterwards turned king's evidence, and appeared against those whom he had served.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Thomson, Mrs.
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