 | Charles Viner - 1801 - 484 pages
.../CONFESSION of the prifoner obtained by promifes or threats ^ cannot be piven in evidence; for, being forced from the mind by the flattery of hope or the torture of fear, it comes in fo qutftionable a fhape when it is to be confidered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - 1802 - 420 pages
...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 a fhape, when it is confidered as evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1815 - 704 pages
...crime to which it refers ; but a confession forced from the 17S3. mind by the 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 («).... | |
 | Thomas Leach - 1815 - 706 pages
...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 - 1815 - 488 pages
...and" a confession forced from the mi ml, by the flattery of 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... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1820 - 922 pages
...rejected as inadmissible, under a consideration, whether they arc, or are not, entitled to credit : and a confession forced from the mind, by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of apprehension, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered as the... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 894 pages
...evidence. For the law will not suffer a prisoner to be made the deluded instrument of his own conviction. A confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or pcr cur. by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it K. v. Jane is to be considered... | |
 | 1843 - 498 pages
...evidence of that fact." " A free and voluntary confession is deserving the highest credit, . . . but a confession forced from the mind by the flattery...the torture of fear comes in so questionable a shape that no credit ought to be given it : therefore it is rejected."1 Without hope or fear, gain or loss,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - 1837 - 570 pages
...strongest sense of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to 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 is to be considered as the evidence... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - 1839 - 584 pages
...strongest sense of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to 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 is to be considered as 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. 
