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" Confessions are received in evidence, or rejected as inadmissible, under a consideration whether they are, or are not entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest... "
Cases in Crown Law: Determined by the Twelve Judges, by the Court of King's ... - Page 259
by Thomas Leach - 1815 - 1108 pages
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The Rules of Evidence on Pleas of the Crown: Illustrated from ..., Volume 1

Leonard MacNally - Evidence, Criminal - 1802 - 420 pages
...obtained, from prifoners by promifes or threats, is to be rejected from a regard to public faith. No fuch rule ever prevailed. The idea is novel in theory,...repugnant to the general principles of criminal law. For confeffions are received in evidence, or rejected as inadmiffible, under a confideration whether...
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A Practical Guide, to the Quarter, and Other, Sessions of the Peace: Adapted ...

William Dickinson - Criminal law - 1815 - 488 pages
...strongest sense of guilt, and it is therefore admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers.* But confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...inadmissible, under a consideration, whether they are, or are riot, entitled to credit : and" a confession forced from the mi ml, by the flattery of hope, or by...
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A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions and Other Sessions of the Peace ...

William Dickinson - Criminal law - 1820 - 922 pages
...strongest sense of guilt ; and it is therefore admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers, f But confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...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,...
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Crown Cases Reserved for Consideration: 1837 to 1844

Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - Criminal law - 1837 - 570 pages
...law and the principle of it is fully explained by the court in Warwickshall's case, 1 Leach, 299- " Confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...under a consideration whether they are, or are not, entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it...
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Crown Cases Reserved for Consideration [1824-44]: 1824 to 1837

Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - Criminal law - 1839 - 584 pages
...law and the principle of it is fully explained by the court in WarwickshalPs case, 1 Leach, 299. " Confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...under a consideration whether they are, or are not, entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it...
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On the Admissibility of Confessions and Challenge of Jurors in Criminal ...

Henry Holmes Joy - Confession (Law) - 1842 - 270 pages
...was to be rejected from a regard to public faith; that no such rule ever prevailed, that the idea was novel in theory and would be as dangerous in practice...under a consideration whether they are or are not entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it...
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The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 28

Law - 1842 - 536 pages
...have been obtained from prisoners by promises or threats is to be rejected from a regard to public faith. No such rule ever prevailed. The idea is novel...repugnant to the general principles of criminal law." The best mode of preventing improper attempts to extort confessions is, not to render confessions obtained...
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A Selection of Leading Cases in Criminal Law: With Notes, Volume 2

Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - Criminal law - 1857 - 642 pages
...was to be rejected from a regard to public faith; that no such rule ever prevailed, that the idea was novel in theory, and would be as dangerous in practice...as inadmissible, under a consideration whether they arc or are not entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit,...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of ..., Volume 15

New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 674 pages
...the argument would have been unanswerable. The evidence, however, was received, and the court say : " Confessions are received in evidence or rejected as...under a consideration whether they are or are not entitlcd to eredit" ( Sec also Rex v. Buteher, note to The People against McMaheo. WarlckshaWs caie...
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A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, Volume 3

William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1877 - 778 pages
...evidence of confessions obtained by promises or threnti are to be rejected from regard to public faith. Confessions are received in evidence, or rejected...inadmissible, under a consideration whether they are Or not entitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving the highest credit, because it...
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