 A free and voluntary confession 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. But a confession forced from the mind by the flattery...  Dealings with the Dead - 330 ページLucius Manlius Sargent 著 - 1856 - 698 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Charles Viner - 1801 - 484 ページ
...flattery of hope or the torture of fear, it comes in fo qutftionable a fhape when it is to be confidered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it ; and therefore it is to be rrjeûed. But facts, whetl.erthe knowledge of them is obtained in confequence of an extorted... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 420 ページ
...flattery of hope or the torture of fear, comes in fo queftionable a fhape, when it is confidered as evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it, and therefore it is rejected. Warrickftair s cafe, Leach. Cr. ca. 2 Ed. 222. 3 Edit. 298. Therefore in THOMAS VAUGHAN'S cafe, before... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1815 - 704 ページ
...the crime to 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...ought to be given to it; and therefore it is rejected («). This principle respecting confessions has no application whatever as to the admission or rejection... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1815 - 488 ページ
...and" a confession forced from the mi ml, by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of apprehension, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be...no credit ought to be given to it ; and therefore confessions so extorted are rejected. However, if any facts_are discovered, in consequence of even... | |
 | Thomas Leach - 1815 - 706 ページ
...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 to it; and o CASE. ' * therefore it is rejected (a). This principle respecting confessions has no application... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1820 - 922 ページ
...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...no credit ought to be given to it ; and therefore confessions so extorted are uniformly and universally rejected. On this subject, indeed, the practice... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 894 ページ
...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 as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought Warriclnhall, to be given to it, and therefore it is rejected. A confession so 2jB .^ЕГ1 obtained,... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1830 - 1086 ページ
...the mind by the flattery of hope, 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 it, and therefore it is rejected. A confession so obtained, so far from accelerating... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - 1837 - 570 ページ
...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...to be given to it, and therefore it is rejected." Unless, therefore, it is believed that a confession given under religious impressions is not entitled... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - 1839 - 584 ページ
...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...to be given to it, and therefore it is rejected." Unless, therefore, it is believed that a confession given under religious impressions is not entitled... | |
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