 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 726 pages
...witness to the privilege of silence, the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called...to the witness from his being compelled to answer." Applying this rule to the case at bar, we think it apparent that it does not appear from the averments... | |
 | Law - 1863 - 788 pages
...witness to the privilege of silence, the Court must see from the circumstances of ! the case, and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called...to apprehend danger to the witness from his being i compelled to answer. We, indeed, quite agree that, if the fact of the witness being in danger be... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1846 - 734 pages
...question as tending to criminate him, the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called...to the witness from his being compelled to answer. If the fact of the witness being in danger be once made to appear, great latitude should be allowed... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Evidence (Law) - 1865 - 666 pages
...answer would tend to criminate him, the Court must see, from the circumstances of the case, and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called...to the witness from his being compelled to answer ; though, if fhe fact of the witness being in danger be once made to appear, great latitude should... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1865 - 680 pages
...question as tending to criminate him, the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called...danger to the witness from his being compelled to a?tsirer. If the fact of the witness being in danger be once made to appear, great latitude should... | |
 | Law - 1882 - 826 pages
...sufficient to excuse him from answering, but the Court must see, from the circumstances of the case, and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called...there is reasonable ground to apprehend danger to him from his being compelled to answer. But, if it is once made to appear that the witness is in danger,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Evidence (Law) - 1869 - 646 pages
...answer would tend to criminate him, the Court must see, from the circumstances of the case, and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called...to the witness from his being compelled to answer ; though, if the fact of the witness being in danger be once made to appear, great latitude should... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...concur." But he goes on to say that " the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called...to the witness from his being compelled to answer," and also tbat the danger must be real und appreciable. That is on the whole the principal authority... | |
 | Robert Alexander Fisher - Criminal law - 1871 - 722 pages
...question as tending to criminate him, the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called...to the witness from his being compelled to answer. If the fact of the witness being in danger is once made to appear, great latitude should be allowed... | |
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To entitle a party called as a witness to the privilege of silence, the Court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called to give, that there is reasonable ground to apprehend danger to the witness... 
