 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 420 Seiten
...obtained, from prifoners by promifes or threats, is to be rejected from a regard to public faith. No fuch rule ever prevailed. The idea is novel in theory,...repugnant to the general principles of criminal law. For confeffions are received in evidence, or rejected as inadmiffible, under a confideration whether... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1815 - 488 Seiten
...strongest sense of guilt, and it is therefore admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers.* But confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...inadmissible, under a consideration, whether they are, or are riot, entitled to credit : and" a confession forced from the mi ml, by the flattery of hope, or by... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1820 - 922 Seiten
...strongest sense of guilt ; and it is therefore admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers, f But confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...inadmissible, under a consideration, whether they arc, or are not, entitled to credit : and a confession forced from the mind, by the flattery of hope,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - 1837 - 570 Seiten
...law and the principle of it is fully explained by the court in Warwickshall's case, 1 Leach, 299- " Confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...under a consideration whether they are, or are not, entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - 1839 - 584 Seiten
...law and the principle of it is fully explained by the court in WarwickshalPs case, 1 Leach, 299. " Confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...under a consideration whether they are, or are not, entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it... | |
 | Henry Holmes Joy - 1842 - 270 Seiten
...was to be rejected from a regard to public faith; that no such rule ever prevailed, that the idea was novel in theory and would be as dangerous in practice...under a consideration whether they are or are not entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it... | |
 | 1842 - 536 Seiten
...have been obtained from prisoners by promises or threats is to be rejected from a regard to public faith. No such rule ever prevailed. The idea is novel...repugnant to the general principles of criminal law." The best mode of preventing improper attempts to extort confessions is, not to render confessions obtained... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 Seiten
...was to be rejected from a regard to public faith; that no such rule ever prevailed, that the idea was novel in theory, and would be as dangerous in practice...as inadmissible, under a consideration whether they arc or are not entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1864 - 674 Seiten
...the argument would have been unanswerable. The evidence, however, was received, and the court say : " Confessions are received in evidence or rejected as...under a consideration whether they are or are not entitlcd to eredit" ( Sec also Rex v. Buteher, note to The People against McMaheo. WarlckshaWs caie... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 778 Seiten
...evidence of confessions obtained by promises or threnti are to be rejected from regard to public faith. Confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...inadmissible, under a consideration whether they are Or not entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving the highest credit, because it... | |
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Confessions are received in evidence, or rejected as inadmissible, under a consideration whether they are, or are not entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest... 
