What is the effect of a judge's warning to a plaintiff in a case where corroboration is wholly lacking?

Saskatchewan, Canada


The following excerpt is from R. v. Stern, 1932 CanLII 159 (SK CA):

The learned Judge should therefore have gone no farther in his charge than to give them the warning in such a case where corroboration is wholly lacking, as to which reference may be had to Gouin v. Reg. 1926 CanLII 44 (SCC), [1926] S.C.R. 539, 46 C.C.C. 1.

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