 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 418 lapas
...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 lapas
...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...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 - 752 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...suiter a prisoner to be made the deluded instrument of his own conviction. Gild. Ev. by Lofft, 1 37. P 4 VU FU w 7 "J U FQ @ /> Hҳ %2 ] Ұ 4 o h |` ve ? xUR q2 B 4Ъug \ )e ,U @ ; v Q wh«i it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ougbt to be given to it, and... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 908 lapas
...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 the other hand, it is said by Mr. Justice Foster, (Discourses, 243,) that hasty confessions made... | |
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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... 
