 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 418 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...or rejected as inadmissible, under a consideration whether they are or are not intitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the...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... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1820 - 922 σελίδες
...menace or undue terror. T..IM- vniun- But where it is free and voluntary, it is deserving of the tar-Y° highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt ; and it is therefore admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers, f But confessions are received in... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Joseph Payne - 1825 - 948 σελίδες
...silence the inducements by which it was procured; and, if so, it is certainly not receivable in evidence. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the...highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from a sense of guilt ; but a confession procured by such means as those used in the present case is of... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - 1837 - 570 σελίδες
...or rejected as inadmissible, under a consideration whether they are, or are not, entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the...which it refers ; 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1838 - 818 σελίδες
...the inducements by which it was procured ; and, if so, it is certainly not receivable in evidence. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to How from a sense of guilt ; but a confession procured by such means as those used in the present case... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - 1839 - 584 σελίδες
...or rejected as inadmissible, under a consideration whether they are, or are not, entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the...which it refers ; 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... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 908 σελίδες
...swears against it. Gilb. Ev. 137. So it is stated by the court in WarickshalFs case, 1 Leach, 263, that a free and 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... | |
 | Henry Holmes Joy - 1842 - 270 σελίδες
...flows, in the language of the court in Warrickshall's case(a), " from the strongest sense of guilt, it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers." It seems difficult to imagine that a man under spiritual convictions, and the influence of religious... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1849 - 814 σελίδες
...Evidence. § 219, vol. 1, p. 263. "A free nnd voluntary confession," said Eyre, CB in Warickshall's case, " is deserving of the highest credit, because it is...admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers; hut a confession, forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in... | |
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A free and 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 of the crime to which it refers... 
