... the authorities are numerous and very nearly uniform to the effect that, If the proposed testimony is material to the issue on trial, the fact that the testimony may tend to degrade the witness in public estimation does not exempt him from the duty... Rebates - Página 130por Harry Turner Newcomb - 1907 - 155 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1899 - 1156 páginas
...we have already observed, the authorities are numerous and very nearly uniform to the effect that, if the proposed testimony is material to the issue...trial, the fact that the testimony may tend to degrade tho witness iu public estimation does not exempt him from the duty of disclosure. A person who commits... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1895
...nearly uniform to the effect that, if the proposed testimony is material to tho issue on trial, tho fact that the testimony may tend to degrade the witness...good name and reputation, and ought not to call upon tho courts to protect that which he has himself esteemed to be of such little value. The safety and... | |
| 1914 - 1440 páginas
...but, as ,we have observed, the authorities are numerous, and very nearly uniform, to the effect that, If the proposed testimony Is material to the Issue...estimation does not exempt him from the duty of disclosure. [161 US 605, 16 Sup. Ct 650, 40 L. Ed. 819.]" The court then proceeds to hold that since the act of... | |
| 1896 - 414 páginas
...the witness from the personal disgrace or opprobrium attaching to the exposure of his crime. * * * The fact that the testimony may tend to degrade the...estimation does not exempt him from the duty of disclosure. * * * The design of the constitutional privilege is to not aid the witness in vindicating his character,... | |
| 1899 - 1148 páginas
...we have already observed, the authorities are numerous and very nearly uniform to the effect that, If the proposed testimony is material to the issue...criminal act is bound to contemplate the consequences of exposare to his good name and reputation, and ought not to call upon the courts to protect that which... | |
| Christopher Stuart Patterson - 1904 - 408 páginas
...by law afforded absolute immunity, federal and state, for the offense to which the question relates. "The fact that the testimony may tend to degrade the...public estimation does not exempt him from the duty of disclosure."10 The provision that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation... | |
| Robert Patterson Reeder - 1914 - 464 páginas
...Sup. Ct. 563, 569, 48 L. ed. 860. The court said, 161 US 605, 606, 16 Sup. Ct. 650, 40 L. ed. 824, "If the proposed testimony is material to the issue...estimation does not exempt him from the duty of disclosure. . . . The design of the constitutional privilege is not to aid the witness in vindicating his character,... | |
| United States - 1918 - 1138 páginas
...may tend to degrade a witness in public estimation does not exempt him from the duty of disclosure, if the proposed testimony is material to the issue on trial. The design of the constitutional privilege is not to aid the witness in vindicating his character, but... | |
| Elijah Nathaniel Zoline - 1921 - 650 páginas
...ordinary course of law." 1 The authorities are numerous, and very nearly uniform, to the effect that, if the proposed testimony is material to the issue...estimation does not exempt him from the duty of disclosure. The design of the constitutional privilege is not to aid the witness in vindicating his character,... | |
| United States - 1924 - 940 páginas
...pardon, or by statutory enactment. Robertson v. Baldwin, 165 US 281. That testimony may tend to degrade a witness in public estimation does not exempt him from the duty of disclosure, if the proposed testimony is material to the issue on trial. Brown v. Walker, 161 US 605. On a question... | |
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