 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 850 pages
...State as declarations, or confessions, tending to establish his guilt ; and the general rule is, that the whole of what the prisoner said on the subject,...of making the confession, should be taken together. " This rule," says Professor Greenleaf, "is the dictate of reason, as well as humanity." " If," says... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...other cases ; and it seems countenanced by approved writers on this branch of the law (a). § 629. In the proof of confessions, as in the case of admissions in civil causes (b), the whole of what the prisoner said on the subject, at the time of making the confession,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1858 - 740 pages
...represented by HAMMOND, for defendant in error. By the Court. — BENNING J. delivering the opinion. [l.] " In the proof of confessions, as in the case of admissions,...making the confession, should be taken together." 1. Green. Ev., § 218. Therefore, the question which the counsel of the accused asked the witness,... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...Edw. VI. See Foster, and it seems countenanced by approved writers on this branch of the law.1 § 218. In the proof of confessions, as in the case of admissions...the time of making the confession, should be taken together.8 This rule -is the dictate of reason, as well as of humanity. The prisoner is supposed to... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 684 pages
...deliberate nor voluntary, upon which alone the value of confessions depend. 1 Grecnl. §§ 215, 219. " The whole of what the prisoner said on the subject at the time of making the confession should be received together." 1 GreenL § 218; 1 Archb. CP Waterman's Notes, 124-5; Roscoe's Cr. Ev. 55; Ilespublica... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 684 pages
...deliberate nor voluntary, upon which alone the value of confessions depend. 1 Greenl. §§ 215, 219. " The whole of what the prisoner said on the subject at the time of making the confession should be received together." 1 Greenl. § 218; 1 Archb. CP Vt'atcrman's Notes, 124-5; Rosette's Cr. Ev. 55;... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1876 - 762 pages
...countenanced by approved writers on this branch .-f the law.1 § 218. Confession must be taken as a whole. In the proof of confessions, as in the case of admissions...the time of making the confession, should be taken together.2 This rule is the dictate of reason, as well as of humanity. The prisoner is supposed to... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1878 - 952 pages
...§ 870.3 In the proof of confessions, — as in the case of admissions § 795 in civil causes,* — the whole of what the prisoner said on the subject,...of making the confession, should be taken together. This rule is the dictate of reason, as well as of humanity. The prisoner is supposed to have stated... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1166 pages
...The degree of credit due to them is to be estimated by the jury under the circumstances of each case. The whole of what the prisoner said on the subject...of making the confession should be taken together. The jury may believe that part which criminates the prisoner, and reject that which Is in his favor,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1142 pages
...degree of credit due to them is to be estimated by the jury, under the circumstances of each case. The whole of what the prisoner said on the subject...of making the confession should be taken together. The Jury may believe that part which criminates the accused and reject that part which is In his favor,... | |
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In the proof of confessions, as in the case of admissions in civil cases, the whole of what the prisoner said on the subject, at the time of making the confession, should be taken together. 
