 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
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Joel Tiffany - 1868 - 1050 pagina’s
...promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accuOpinion by DAVIES, Ch. J. rately, or reported with precision, and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence " (4 Black. Com. 357). It is to be observed, in the first place, that Blackstone uses this language... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - 1869 - 396 pagina’s
...testified to by any number of witnesses, are not sufficient. Confessions (out of court) are said to be 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 their... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - 1869 - 350 pagina’s
...testified to by any number of witnesses, are not sufficient. Confessions (out of court) are said to be 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 their... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - 1869 - 596 pagina’s
...testified to by any number of witnesses, are not sufficient. Confessions (out of court) are said to be 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 their... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1869 - 600 pagina’s
...artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with precision, and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence" (4 Black. C&m., 357). It is to be observed, in the first place, that BLACKSTONE uses this language... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1873 - 752 pagina’s
...suspicious of all testimony ; ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported...their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence.1 To which it may be added, that it is easy to be forged, and the most difficult to guard... | |
 | Calvin Townsend - 1873 - 374 pagina’s
...suspicious of all testimony ; ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces; seldom remembered accurately or reported...their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence.1 There must, as there should, be a concurrence of two witnesses to the same overt act, that... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 858 pagina’s
...admitted as evidence under this statute. 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 artifices, false hopes, promises of favour, or menaces; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1876 - 658 pagina’s
...admitted as evidence under this statute. And, indeed, even in cases of felony at the common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony;...favour, or menaces; seldom remembered accurately, or repeated with due precision ; and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence.... | |
 | Sir William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 900 pagina’s
...Even in cases of felony at common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony, very liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises...menaces, seldom remembered accurately, or reported with precision, and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence.' A distinction... | |
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