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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 ; but a confession forced from the 1783. "
The Justice of the Peace: Designed to be a Guide to Justices of the Peace ... - Page 212
by Benjamin Kingsbury (Jr.) - 1852 - 407 pages
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The Rules of Evidence on Pleas of the Crown: Illustrated from ..., Volume 1

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...
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Cases in Crown Law: Determined by the Twelve Judges, by the Court ..., Volume 1

Thomas Leach - Criminal law - 1815 - 706 pages
...or rejected as inadmissible, under a consideration whether they are or are not intitled to credit. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the...which it refers ; but a confession forced from the 1783. mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes • in so questionable a shape...
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A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions and Other Sessions of the Peace ...

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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius, in the Courts of King's ...

Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Joseph Payne - Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 948 pages
...silence the inducements by which it was procured; and, if so, it is certainly not receivable in evidence. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the...highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from a sense of guilt ; but a confession procured by such means as those used in the present case is of...
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Reports of Cases Relating to the Duty and Office of ..., Issue 15, Volume 3

Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Justices of the peace - 1838 - 818 pages
...the inducements by which it was procured ; and, if so, it is certainly not receivable in evidence. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to How from a sense of guilt ; but a confession procured by such means as those used in the present case...
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A Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases

Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1840 - 908 pages
...swears against it. Gilb. Ev. 137. So it is stated by the court in WarickshalFs case, 1 Leach, 263, that a free and 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...
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On the Admissibility of Confessions and Challenge of Jurors in Criminal ...

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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 3

Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 814 pages
...Evidence. § 219, vol. 1, p. 263. "A free nnd voluntary confession," said Eyre, CB in Warickshall's case, " is deserving of the highest credit, because it is...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...
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A Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases

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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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law ...

Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 954 pages
...the inducements by which it was procured ; and, if so, it is certainly not receivable in evidence. A free and voluntary confession is deserving of the...highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from a sense of guilt ; but a confession procured by such means as those used in the present case is of...
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