Ganesan v. State
Texas Court of Appeals
45 S.W.3d 197 (2001)
During a bitter divorce, business failure, and bankruptcy involving his wife Sudha Vallabhaneni, Apparajan Ganesan (defendant) recorded threats to kill himself, her, or both, and separately asked a fellow jail detainee about finding someone to "take care" of her before backing off the idea; in the two months before Vallabhaneni's scheduled bankruptcy testimony, Ganesan asked Reda Sue Prier to find someone to kill both Vallabhaneni and her attorney. Ganesan was convicted of two counts of solicitation to commit murder, and appealed, arguing Prier's testimony wasn't sufficiently corroborated to support either conviction.
Whether a solicitation-to-murder conviction may rest solely on the uncorroborated testimony of the person allegedly solicited, without independent corroborating evidence.