 | Leonard MacNally - Evidence, Criminal - 1802 - 418 pages
...confeffion is deferving of the higheft credit, becaufe it is prefumed to flow from the higheft fenfe of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers ; but a confeffion forced from the mind by the flattery of hope or the torture of fear, comes in fo queftionable... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Criminal law - 1815 - 704 pages
...consideration whether they are or are not intitlcd to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow...which it refers ; but a confession forced from the 17S3. mind by the flattery of hone, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape when... | |
 | William Dickinson - Criminal law - 1820 - 922 pages
...menace or undue terror. T..IM- vniun- But where it is free and voluntary, it is deserving of the tar-Y° highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt ; and it is therefore admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers, f But confessions are received in... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - Criminal law - 1837 - 570 pages
...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...confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered as the evidence... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - Criminal law - 1839 - 584 pages
...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...confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered as the evidence... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1840 - 908 pages
...voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the highest sense of guilt, and therefore, it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers. On the other hand, it is said by Mr. Justice Foster, (Discourses, 243,) that hasty confessions made... | |
 | Henry Holmes Joy - Confession (Law) - 1842 - 270 pages
...flows, in the language of the court in Warrickshall's case(a), " from the strongest sense of guilt, it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers." It seems difficult to imagine that a man under spiritual convictions, and the influence of religious... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 814 pages
...1, p. 263. "A free nnd voluntary confession," said Eyre, CB in Warickshall's case, " is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow...admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers; hut a confession, forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in... | |
 | Benjamin Kingsbury (Jr.) - Justices of the peace - 1852 - 420 pages
...like other facts, to be weighed by the magistrate. 4 A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow...confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered as the evidence... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1852 - 988 pages
...deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the highest sense of guilt, ind therefore, it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers. On the other hand, it is said by Mr. Justice Foster, (Discourses, 243,) that hasty confesBOBS made... | |
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A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers. 
