| California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 842 pages
...recollection, and ascertain what the defendant in fact said or meant. "With respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution." (1 Greenleaf on Evidence, sec. 200.) "In the proof of confessions, as in the case of admissions in... | |
| Stefani Koorey - Trials (Murder) - 2005 - 557 pages
...borne in mind in dealing with this class of evidence. He says, "with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed that they ought to be received...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, and the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own... | |
| Stefani Koorey - Trials (Murder) - 2005 - 557 pages
...borne in mind in dealing with this class of evidence. He says, "with respect to all verbal admissions it may be observed that they ought to be received...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, and the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own... | |
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Conway Robinson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan, James Muscoe Matthews, George W. Hansbrough, Martin Parks Burks - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1046 pages
...probative value of such evidence, says: "With respect to all verbal admissions, it may be observed thai they ought to be received with great caution. The...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
| Law - 1889 - 586 pages
...Evidence— Admissions and Declarations — As has been well said by a leading textwriter "verbal admissions ought to be received with great caution; the evidence...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake, the party himself either being misinformed or not having clearly expressed his own meaning,... | |
| Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 872 pages
...satisfactory. As said by the Supreme Court of Missouri in Kinney v. Murray ct al, 170 Mo. 674 (71 SW 197) : The evidence consisting, as it does, in the mere repetition...of oral statements, is subject to much imperfection and mistake; the party himself either being misinformed, or not having clearly expressed himself, or... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1164 pages
...mistake. Greenleaf, in his work on Evidence, says at section 200: "With respect to all verbal admissions, It may be observed that they ought to be received with great caution." Allen v. Kirk, 81 Iowa, 670, 47 NW 906; Kelsoe v. State, 47 Ala. 599; Cousins v. Jackson, 52 Ala. 264;... | |
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