 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1128 pages
...child may be received, though not given under oath, if, in the opinion of the court or magistrate, such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence. But no person shall be held or convicted of an offense upon such testimony unsupported... | |
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1908 - 886 pages
...of twelve years offered as a witness does not in the opinion of the court or magistrate understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child...though not given under oath if, in the opinion of the court or magistrate such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1096 pages
...of twelve years offered as a witness does not in the opinion of the court or magistrate understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child...though not given under oath if, in the opinion of the court or magistrate, such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of... | |
 | Llewellyn Archer Atherley-Jones, Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot - Children - 1909 - 456 pages
...child of tender years who is tendered as a witness, does not in the opinion of the court understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child may be received, though not given upon oath, if, in the opinion of the court, such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify... | |
 | R. M. Hennessy - Justices of the peace - 1910 - 1040 pages
...child of tender years who is tendered as a witness, does not in the opinion of the court understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child may be received, though not given upon oath, if, in the opinion of the court, such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify... | |
 | Criminal law - 1910 - 590 pages
...and such child docs not, in the opinion of the "judge, justice or other presiding officer, understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child may be received, though not given upon oath, if, in the opinion of the judge, justice or other presiding officer, as the case may be,... | |
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1911 - 1204 pages
...of twelve years offered as a witness does not in the opinion of the court or magistrate understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child...though not given under oath if, in the opinion of the court or magistrate such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - Evidence (Law) - 1911 - 1120 pages
...child of tender years who is tendered as a witness, does not in the opinion of the court understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child may be received, though not given upon oath, if, in the opinion of the court, such child is possessed of sufficient intelligence to justify... | |
 | Saskatchewan - Law - 1911 - 1334 pages
...and such child does not in the opinion of the judge, justice or other presiding officer understand in relat upon oath if in the opinion 677 Cap. 60 WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE RS of the judge, justice or other presiding... | |
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Whenever in any criminal proceedings a child actually or apparently under the age of twelve years offered as a witness does not in the opinion of the court or magistrate understand the nature of an oath, the evidence of such child may be received though... 
