 | Thomas Leach - 1815 - 706 lehte
...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...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved - 1837 - 570 lehte
...or rejected as inadmissible, under a 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 from the strongest sense of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1838 - 818 lehte
...the prisoner. — I submit that this confession is not receivable in evidence. I am aware that, as a general rule, a confession procured after inducements...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Court for Crown Cases Reserved, William Moody - 1839 - 584 lehte
...or rejected as inadmissible, under a 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 from the strongest sense of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 908 lehte
...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.... | |
 | Henry Holmes Joy - 1842 - 270 lehte
...or rejected as inadmissible, under a 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 from the strongest sense of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers;... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1849 - 814 lehte
...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 presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt, and, therefore, it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers;... | |
 | Benjamin Kingsbury (Jr.) - 1852 - 420 lehte
...kind are receivable in evidence, being proved 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 from the strongest sense of guilt, and therefore it is admitted as proof of the crime to which it refers... | |
 | 1853 - 954 lehte
...for the prisoner. I submit that this confession is not receivable in evidence. I am aware that, as a general rule, a confession procured after inducements...questionable a nature as to be very unsafe to rely upon. *•>,->•> I ALDERBON, B. This is a point well worthy of consideration. *I J have a very strong opinion... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - 1856 - 612 lehte
...given in evidence. BAEON EYEE, in JRex v. Jlearne, 4 Car. and Payne', 215, (19 ECL Eep. 350,) observes, a free and voluntary confession is deserving of the highest credit, because it is presumed to iiow from the strongest sense of guilt, and, therefore, it is admitted as proof of the crime to which... | |
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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. 
