A free and voluntary confession," said Eyre, CB,2 " is 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 to which it refers... A Treatise on the Law of Evidence - Página 257por Simon Greenleaf - 1876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 418 páginas
...confeffion is deferving 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... | |
| Thomas Leach - 1815 - 706 páginas
...under a consideration whether they are or are not intitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is...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... | |
| Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 852 páginas
...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... | |
| Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 752 páginas
...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... | |
| William Dickinson - 1820 - 922 páginas
...menace or undue terror. T..IM- vniun- But where it is free and voluntary, it is deserving of the tar-Y° highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt ; and it is therefore admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers, f But confessions are received in... | |
| Richard Burn - 1820 - 894 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 908 páginas
...it is stated by the court in WarickshalFs case, 1 Leach, 263, that a free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the highest sense of guilt, and therefore, it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers. On... | |
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