 Treason against the State consists only in levying war against it, adhering to its enemies, or giving them aid and comfort. A person may not be convicted of treason except on the evidence of two witnesses to the same overt act or by confession in open...  Transactions - Page 191by Maryland State Bar Association - 1920Full view - About this book
 | North Carolina - Law - 1861 - 560 pages
...color of authority from such usurped government : and such treason, if proved by the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt' act, or by confession in open court, shall be punished with death. * information. SEC. 2. Be it fwrthtsr enacted ?, That if any free person,,... | |
 | John Wilder May - Criminal law - 1881 - 280 pages
...States and into those of most of the States, that treason can only be proved by the evidence of two witnesses to the same overt act, or by confession in open court. Unless the overt act is so proved, all other evidence is irrelevant.3 But an overt act being proved... | |
 | Bar associations - 1921 - 272 pages
...instrument says of just what treason shall consist, and declares that it can only be proved by two witnesses to the same overt act, or by confession in open court. Suppose Congress passes an act defining treason differently from the Constitution, and providing that it may... | |
 | Bar associations - 1922 - 266 pages
...instrument says of just what treason shall consist, and declares that it can only be proved by two witnesses to the same overt act, or by confession in open court. Suppose Congress passes an act defining treason differently from the Constitution, and providing that it may... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections - 1927 - 514 pages
...Constitution provides that no person shall be convicted of treason except upon the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or by confession in open court. So that under the state of facts thus presented he could no be convicted of treason. Suppose he was... | |
 | Texas Bar Association - Bar associations - 1927 - 318 pages
...proved, and it cannot be proved in any other way—it shall be proved on the testimony of only two witnesses to the same overt act, or by confession in open court. That is the only way you can prove treason. Why do we have that curious provision in our National Constitution... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1920 - 284 pages
...war against the United States and giving aid and comfort to its enemies, and must be proved by two witnesses to the same overt act or by confession in...Constitution is the supreme law and the statute must yield to it. The second thing he did was this: If this law was constitutional, then this was a ministerial... | |
 | Brian F. Carso (Jr.) - History - 2006 - 288 pages
...execution of the laws, under color of its authority; and such treason, if proved by the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or by confession in open court, shall be punished by death. 4 8 Not surprisingly, given the somewhat obtuse debate on the matter at... | |
 | Louisiana State Bar Association - Agency (Law) - 1926 - 288 pages
...proved, and it cannot be proved in any other way — it shall be proved on the testimony of only two witnesses to the same overt act, or by confession in open court. That is the only way you can prove treason. Why do we have that curious provision in our National Constitution... | |
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