A person entitled to a reward, offered by the General Assembly, on the conviction of an offender, is a competent witness against such offender.
SPENCER and MACAY, JJ.,
Held he is a competent witness, and must be received; and he was received and gave evidence accordingly, and upon his evidence Coulter was convicted, and received judgment of death, and was executed. Vide 2 H. H. P. C., 304, 280, 281.