 And indeed, even in cases of felony at the common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony : ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due...  The Lives and Criminal Trials of Celebrated Men - Pagina 29door David Jardine - 1835 - 520 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pagina’s
...testimony, and unguarded confessions, to their utter ruin. It has been well remarked, that confessions are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony ;...favour, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, pr reported with due precision ; and incapable, in their nature, of being disproved by other negative... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1836 - 704 pagina’s
...as evidence under this statute (SI). And indeed, even in cases of felony at the common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony ;...nature of being disproved by other negative evidence (32). By the same statute 7 W. III. it is declared that both wit(31 ) It appears now to be an established... | |
 | sir William Shee - 1836 - 160 pagina’s
...testimony and unfounded confessions to their utter ruin. It has been well remarked that confessions are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony,...nature of being disproved by other negative evidence. To which it may be added that it is easy to be forged and the most difficult to guard against. An unprincipled... | |
 | William Shee - 1836 - 154 pagina’s
...testimony and unfounded confessions to their utter ruin. It has been well remarked that confessions are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony, ever liable to be obtained by artifice, fake hopes, promises of favour, or menaces, seldom remembered accurately or reported with due precision,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - 1837 - 570 pagina’s
...prisoner, 2 Hale, 284, 285. '2 East, PC 657. Confessions, even in cases of felony at the common law, are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony,...ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, and promises of favour or menaces, seldom remembered accurately or reported with due precision, and... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - 1839 - 584 pagina’s
...prisoner," 2 Hale, 284, 285, 2 East, PC 657. Confessions, even in cases of felony at the common-law, are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony,...ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, and promises of favour or menaces, seldom remembered accurately or reported with due precision, and... | |
 | 1864 - 662 pagina’s
...Engelschen zag de geringe waarde van die verklaringen en bekentenissen in. Zij zijn , zegt BLACKSTONE : //the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony; ever liable to be obtained bj artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces , seldom remembered accurately , or repeated... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1840 - 394 pagina’s
...testimony and unguarded confessions, to their utter ruin. It has been well remarked, that confessions are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony ;...be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision ; and incapable, in... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1841 - 834 pagina’s
...unguarded confessions, made to persons having no authority, even in cases of felony at the common law, are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony ;...be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision ; and incapable in... | |
 | Henry Holmes Joy - 1842 - 270 pagina’s
...suspicious of all testimony—ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes and promises of favor, or menaces; seldom remembered accurately, or reported...nature, of being disproved by other negative evidence." So Foster, in speaking of prosecutions for seditious words, says, " words are transient and fleeting... | |
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