 | 1895 - 1088 páginas
...deserving of the highest credit, because It Is presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt, Elementary writers of authority concur In saying that while, from the nature of such evidence, it must... | |
 | 1889 - 960 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...confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope or the tortures of fear comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered as the evidence... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 732 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 to which it refers. " Elementary writers of authority concur in saying that, while from the very „ nature of such evidence... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 828 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 to which it refers." Elementary writers of authority concur in saying that, while from the very nature of such evidence... | |
 | 1884 - 1022 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 to which it refers." Elementary writers of authority concu'rr in saying that, while from the very nature of such evidence... | |
 | George Clipperton Bayne - 1885 - 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 by Mr. Justice Foster that hasty confessions made to persons having no... | |
 | 1886 - 844 páginas
...they were obtained by the inducement held out to him by the witness that it would be better for him. A confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or the torture of fear, it is said, comes in so questionable shape, when it is to be considered the evidence... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1888 - 830 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 by Mr. Justice Foster (Discourses, 243), that hasty confessions made... | |
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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. 
