 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1848 - 918 sider
...an incompetent witness, so long as he remains not convicted and sentenced for an infamous crime. But the degree of credit which ought to be given to the...matter exclusively within the province of the jury. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 379, 380. It follows from this statement of the law, that Mrs. McMichael was a competent... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 756 sider
...impossible, without having recourse to such evidence, to bring the principal offenders to justice. The degree of credit, which ought to be given to the...of the jury. It has sometimes been said, that they (p) Deut. xix. 15 ; Deut. xvii. 6 ; Numb. xxxv. 30. (q) Dec. Greg. lib. 2, tit. 20, cap. 23. (r) 2... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1858 - 934 sider
...impossible, without having recourse to such evidence, to bring the principal offenders to justice. The ' degree of credit, which ought to be given to...weighing such testimony is dictated by prudence and reason. But no positive rule of law exists on the subject; and the jury may, if they please, act upon... | |
 | Theodore Thring - 1861 - 416 sider
...impossible, without having recourse to such evidence, to bring the principal offenders to justice. The degree of credit which ought to be given to the...is a matter exclusively within the province of the court. It has sometimes been said that the court ought not to believe him, unless his testimony is... | |
 | Ireland. High Court of Chancery - 1861 - 682 sider
...possible, without having recourse to such evidence, to bring the " principal offenders to justice. The degree of credit which ought " to be given to the testimony of an accomplice is a matter exclu• sively within the province of the jury. It has sometimes been " said that they ought not to... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1865 - 680 sider
...discussed in 1 Phillips on Evidence, COCKBUEX, C..T.—It is stated very well in Taylor on Evidence, 796; " The degree of credit which ought to be given to the...the province of the jury. It has sometimes been said they ought not to believe him unless his evidence is corroborated by other evidence, and without doubt... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1866 - 756 sider
...should afterwards refuse to testify, he may bo convicted upon the evidence of that confession.5 § 880. The degree of credit which ought to be given to the...dictated by prudence and good reason. But there is no 1 See Jones v. Georgia, 1 Kelly, 610. case of a party seeking relief. See infra, 3 Supra, § 862. §... | |
 | Theophilus Parvin - 1867 - 798 sider
...or text-books on surgery, and used by surgeons of ordinary skill in similar cases. 7. In determining the degree of credit which ought to be given to the testimony of any witness in the case, the jury should consider any relationship which they may believe, from the... | |
 | 1869 - 818 sider
...Hale. PC Vol. 1, page 305.—Balmore's case. Grcenleaf on Evidence. Vol. 1. Page479. No. 379. No. 380 "The degree of credit which ought to be given to the...an accomplice, is a matter exclusively within the power of the Jury." Greenleaf. Vol. 1. Page 490. No. 389. Powell's Law of Evidence.—Pages 37 et 41.... | |
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degree of credit, which ought to be given to the testimony of an accomplice, is a matter exclusively within the province of the jury. It has sometimes been said, that they ought not to believe him, unless his testimony is corroborated by other evidence... 
