 | Frederick Augustus Carrington, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Joseph Payne - 1825 - 948 pàgines
...received in evidence against the prisoner, as it had been obtained under a promise. COLERIDGE, J. — The only proper question is, whether the inducement...was calculated to make his confession an untrue one. I think that what was said in the present case must have had a contrary tendency. The confession was... | |
 | Henry Holmes Joy - 1842 - 270 pàgines
...evidence, and the prisoner was found guilty. The learned judge said, that the only proper question was, whether the inducement held out to the prisoner was calculated to make his confession an untrue one, and he thought that what was said by the witness to the prisoner had a contrary tendency. In Shaw's... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1851 - 452 pàgines
...per Littledale in Hex v. Court, 7 C. & P., 486. In determining, therefore, whether a confession be admissible or not, the only proper question is, whether...was calculated to make his confession an untrue one — per Coleridge J., in Hex v. Thomas, 7 C. & P., 345. Both these cases are cited with approbation... | |
 | William Hickman - 1851 - 364 pàgines
...state merely are not within the principle which excludes confessions obtained by improper influence. The only proper question is whether the inducement...was calculated to make his confession an untrue one ; if not, it would be admissible." * " The circumstance that some deception has been practised in order... | |
 | 1867 - 918 pàgines
...now read a passage as to the rule, from Russell on Crimes, edited by Mr. Greaves. Now here is what Mr. Greaves lays down in 3 Russell : — " The object...questions put to him in the first instance ; it was not witli respect to the charge of which he was afterwards accused; it was as to a charge of pfke-making,... | |
 | 1872 - 954 pàgines
...the fad* and act* above noticed. 4< The chief question, it is said, is whether the inducement hold out to the prisoner was calculated to make his confession an untrue one ; if not, it will be admissible." Whar. Am. Cr. I- (-2d cd.\ 250 ; Russ. on Cr., 845, tonfessiou made... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1874 - 834 pàgines
...influence applied was such as to induce a false statement. — The chief question, we may now hold, z is whether the inducement held out to the prisoner...was calculated to make his confession an untrue one ; if not, it will be admissible, a Thus in 1872, it was held in England that the words, " I must know... | |
 | Sir William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 900 pàgines
...an oftence which he really never committed, (f/) In determining, therefore, whether a confession be admissible or not, ' the only proper question is,...calculated to make his confession an untrue one.' (h) A confession can never be received in evidence, where the prisoner has been influenced by any threat... | |
 | India - 1877 - 1088 pàgines
...Littledale, J., in R. v. Court, 7 C. and P. 436. In determining, therefore, whether a confession be admissible or not, " the only proper question is,...calculated to make his confession an untrue one." — R v. Thomas, 7 C. and P. 345 ; by Coleridge, J., 3 Euss. on Crimes, 367. So the following statements... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 778 pàgines
...an offence which lie really never committed. (c) In determining, therefore, whether a confession be admissible or not, "the only proper question is, whether...prisoner was calculated to make his confession an untrue опе."(У)' (c) It is a mistnken notion that evidence of confessions obtained by promises or threnti... | |
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In deter" mining therefore whether a confession is admissible or not, the " only proper question is, whether the inducement held out to the " prisoner was calculated to make his confession an untrue one. 
