QUEEN'S EVIDENCE Definition & Meaning

queen's evidence

Also called (when the sovereign is male): king's evidence.��US equivalent: state's evidence.��English law (when the sovereign is female) evidence given for the Crown against his or her former associates in crime by an accomplice (esp in the phrase turn queen's evidence )

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It would all end in one of you turning Queen's evidence and the other two being hanged.

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"True,--and I look forward to turning Queen's evidence."

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Of course we might, if he were arrested, allow him to turn Queen's evidence, but there is always a certain feeling against this class of witness.

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I was then the sole occupant of the Queen's evidence side of the prison, a place I had chosen as I preferred to be alone.

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True to his unvarying principles, he turned Queen's evidence.

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