 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 420 páginas
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1815 - 704 páginas
...flattery of hone, 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 («). This principle respecting confessions has no application whatever as to the admission... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1815 - 488 páginas
...hope, or by the torture of apprehension, 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 confessions so extorted are rejected. However, if any facts_are discovered, in consequence of even... | |
 | Thomas Leach - 1815 - 706 páginas
...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 páginas
...hope, or by the torture of apprehension, 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 confessions so extorted are uniformly and universally rejected. On this subject, indeed, the practice... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - 1837 - 570 páginas
...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." Unless, therefore, it is believed that a confession given under religious impressions is... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - 1839 - 584 páginas
...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." Unless, therefore, it is believed that a confession given under religious impressions is... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 908 páginas
...flattery of hope or the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it, and therefore it is rejected." Per Cur. Warickshall's case, 1 Leach, 263. The rule extends to all statements by a prisoner... | |
 | 1842 - 536 páginas
...flattery of hope or by the torture of fear, conies 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." Now could hope flatter more seductively or fear torture more grimly than by using the language... | |
 | Henry Holmes Joy - 1842 - 270 páginas
...131, Ed. 1815. Old Bailey Sessions, 1783, coram Nares, J. and Eyre, B. G 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(a). This principle respecting confessions has no application whatever to the admission or... | |
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... 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. 
