 | Henry Holmes Joy - Confession (Law) - 1842 - 270 pages
...Leach., case, 236, resumed from the Surry Assizes, 1791, for the opinion of the twelve judges. used, he gives an effect to the statement, completely at variance with what the party really did say (a). In Crossfield's trial for high treason (i), Mr. Adam, speaking of the evidence... | |
 | Ireland. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 588 pages
...party has said, but that, by " unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, he " gives an effect to the statement completely at variance with what " the party really did say." Brewer v. Palmer is directly in point to the present case, and I refer to it as having... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 714 pages
...it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having...having misunderstood him. It frequently happens, also," he adds, "that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, gives... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings - Civil procedure - 1848 - 904 pages
...it does in the mere repetition of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having...also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering ;i few of the expressions really used, gives an effect to the statement, completely at variance with... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 680 pages
...it does, in the mere repetition ol oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself, either being misinformed or not having...statement completely at variance with what the party did actually say." 1 Green. Ec. 233. In Law vs. Merrills, 6 Wend. 277, Chancellor Walworth observes... | |
 | William Henry Seward, T. C. Leland - Trials (Arson) - 1851 - 64 pages
...as it does in the mere repetition of oral statements is subject to much imperfection or mistake, the party himself either being misinformed, or not having...unintentionally altering a few of the expressions realy used gives a completely different statement of what the party did say. The zeal too which so... | |
 | Abel F. Fitch - Counterfeiters - 1851 - 898 pages
...being misinformed, or not havini clearly expressed his own meaning or the witness having understood him. It frequently happens also that the witness,...unintentionally altering a few of the expressions realy used gives a completely different statement of what the party did say. The zeal too which <n... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 816 pages
...does, in the repetition of oral statements, is sometimes subject to imperfections or mistakes; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having...his own meaning, or the witness having misunderstood it. The jury may also consider that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions... | |
 | Edmund Powell - Evidence - 1856 - 456 pages
...what the party has said, but that by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, he gives an effect to the statement completely at variance with what the party really did say." * A confession before magistrates must be proved at trial by the depositions, unless... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - Criminal law - 1857 - 642 pages
...what the party has said, but that by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, he gives an effect to the statement, completely at variance with what the party really did say. 5 Carrington & Payne, 542, note to the case of Earle v. Picken. In Crossficld's trial... | |
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It frequently happens, also, that the witness, by unintentionally altering a few of the expressions really used, gives an effect to the statement completely at variance with what the party did actually say: 
