 | Charles Viner - Law - 1801 - 484 pages
...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 ought to be given to it ; and therefore it is to be rrjeûed. But facts, whetl.erthe knowledge of them is obtained in confequence of an extorted... | |
 | Leonard MacNally - Evidence, Criminal - 1802 - 420 pages
...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 cafe, before... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Criminal law - 1815 - 704 pages
...the 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...ought to be given to it; and therefore it is rejected («). This principle respecting confessions has no application whatever as to the admission or rejection... | |
 | William Dickinson - Criminal law - 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...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 - Criminal law - 1815 - 706 pages
...is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers ; but a confession forced from the 1783. mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear,...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... | |
 | William Dickinson - Criminal law - 1820 - 922 pages
...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...no credit ought to be given to it ; and therefore confessions so extorted are uniformly and universally rejected. On this subject, indeed, the practice... | |
 | Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1820 - 894 pages
...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 as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought Warriclnhall, to be given... | |
 | Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1830 - 1086 pages
...deluded instrument of his own conviction. Gild. Ev. by Lofft, 1 37. A confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, wh«i it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ougbt to be given to it, and... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - Criminal law - 1837 - 570 pages
...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,...to be given to it, and therefore it is rejected." Unless, therefore, it is believed that a confession given under religious impressions is not entitled... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - Criminal law - 1839 - 584 pages
...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,...to be given to it, and therefore it is rejected." Unless, therefore, it is believed that a confession given under religious impressions is not entitled... | |
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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. 
