 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 páginas
...the court in Warrlcl-sJiaU'a cose, 1 Leach, CC 263, (ed. 1815,) "from the strongest sense of guilt, it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers." It scems diflicult to imagine that a man under spiritual convictions, and the influence of religious... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1858 - 898 páginas
...to have been voluntarily made ; •, to adopt the somewhat inflated language of Chief Baron Eyre, 1 confession, forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by 3 torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is be considered as the evidence of guilt,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | William Chetwood De Hart - 1859 - 458 páginas
...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 that hasty confessions made to persons having no authority to examine,... | |
 | John Appleton - 1860 - 298 páginas
...the promise of impunity?" " 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... | |
 | Charles Edwin Wilbour - 1862 - 252 páginas
...is deserving 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...confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or the torture of fear, comes in во questionable a shape, when it ia to be considered as the evidence... | |
 | Joseph Goodeve - 1862 - 776 páginas
...in consequence of such ind^ement either of hope or fear."* In the language of Chief Baron Eyre—" A confession forced from the mind by the flattery...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... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1863 - 540 páginas
...that the same was the case with the rule now under consideration. It was laid down generally, that " a confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, " or the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape when " it is considered as evidence of guilt,... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, John Wesley Shepherd - 1864 - 806 páginas
...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 riiind, by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when... | |
 | William Gillespie Dickson - 1864 - 646 páginas
...been obtained from prisoners by promises or threats, is to be rejected frum a regard to public faith A confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope or the torture of fear, comee in во questionable a shape, when it is to be considered ae the evidence... | |
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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. 
