 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 420 Seiten
...is deferring of the higheft credit, becaufe it is prefumed to flow from the higheft fenfe of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers ; but a confeffion forced from the mind by the flattery of hope or the torture of fear, comes in fo queftionable... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1815 - 704 Seiten
...deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime...which it refers ; but a confession forced from the 17S3. mind by the flattery of hone, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape when... | |
 | Thomas Leach - 1815 - 706 Seiten
...therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers ; but a confession forced from the 1783. mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes • in so questionable a shape when it is to be considered as the WA1|tCK" evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 752 Seiten
...b. 2. c. 46. s. 36. Crim. Law. VOL. i. H rejected from a regard to public faith, but, because, when forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, it comes in so questionable a shape, that no credit should be given to it by a jury, (x) The justice... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 852 Seiten
...guilt (w). A confession so obtained is not rejected from a regard to public faith, but, because, when forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, it comes in so questionable a shape, that no credit should be given to it by a jury (x). The justice... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1820 - 922 Seiten
...rejected as 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, or by the torture of apprehension, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt,... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 894 Seiten
...evidence. For the law will not suffer a prisoner to be made the deluded instrument of his own conviction. A confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or pcr cur. by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it K. v. Jane is to be considered... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1826 - 1018 Seiten
...guilt (a). A confession so obtained is not rejected from a regard to public faith, but, because, when forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, it comes in so questionable a shape, that no credit should be given to it by a jury (b). The justice... | |
 | 1843 - 498 Seiten
...no evidence of that fact." " A free and voluntary confession is deserving the highest credit, . . . but a confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope or the torture of fear comes in so questionable a shape that no credit ought to be given it : therefore... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1830 - 1086 Seiten
...suiter a prisoner to be made the deluded instrument of his own conviction. Gild. Ev. by Lofft, 1 37. A confession forced from the mind by the flattery...or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, wh«i it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ougbt to be given to... | |
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But a confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape when it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it; and therefore it is rejected. 
