 | Ohio, Moses Fleming Wilson - Criminal law - 1900 - 852 pages
...indictments, complaints, and other proceedings, against a person charged with the commission of an offense, the person so charged shall, at his own request, but not otherwise, be a competent witness ; but his neglect or refusal to testify shall not create any presumption against... | |
 | United States - Internal revenue law - 1900 - 482 pages
...courts martial, and courts of inquiry, in any State or Territory, including the District of Columbia, the person so charged shall, at his own request but not otherwise, be a competent witness. And his failure to make such request shall not create any presumption against... | |
 | William Miller Collier - Bankruptcy - 1900 - 918 pages
...courtsmartial, and courts of inquiry, in any State or Territory, including the District of Columbia, the person so charged shall, at his own request but not otherwise, be a competent witness. And his failure to make such request shall not create any presumption against... | |
 | Roger Foster - Courts - 1901 - 1000 pages
...courts-martial, and courts of inquiry, in any State or Territory, including the District of Columbia, the person so charged shall, at his own request, but not otherwise, be a competent witness.24 The Revised Statutes provide that " no pleading of a party, nor any discovery... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1902 - 850 pages
...courts-martial and courts of inquiry in any state or territory, including the District of Columbia, the person so charged shall, at his own request, but not otherwise, be a competent witness. And his failure to make such request shall not create any presumption against... | |
 | Oregon - Law - 1902 - 1036 pages
...persons accused or charged with the commission of crimes or offenses, the person so charged or accused shall, at his own request, but not otherwise, be deemed a competent witness, the credit to be given to his testimony being left solely to the jury, under the instructions of the... | |
 | Maryland - Law - 1904 - 1280 pages
...proceedings in any court of this State, and before a justice of the peace or other officer acting judicially, the person so charged shall at his own request, but not otherwise, be deemed a competent witness ; but the neglect or refusal of any such person to testify shall not create any presumption against... | |
 | New York (State) - Criminal law - 1904 - 1090 pages
...Cr. 558; affirmed, 94 NY 490. Laws 1869, chap. 678, declaring that on a criminal trial the accused " shall at his own request, but not otherwise, be deemed a competent witness " was constitutional (People v. Courtney, 94 NY 490), but was repealed by Laws 1886, chap. 593, 8 1,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1280 pages
...could not do at common law,) provides, in order to secure this constitutional privilege, that he " shall, at his own request, but not otherwise, be deemed a competent witness," and that his neglect or refusal to testify shall not create any presumption against him. Sts. 1866,... | |
 | Law - 1904 - 1032 pages
...claimed is exerted by Act 1869 (Laws 1869, c. 6ΠΆ8), declaring that on a criminal trial the accused shall at his own request, but not otherwise, be deemed a competent witness against himself. People v. Courtney, 94 NY 490, 493. in prohibiting the state from compelling one to... | |
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Columbia, the person so charged shall, at his own request but not otherwise, be a competent witness. And his failure to make such request shall not create any presumption against him. 
