 | 1914 - 556 sider
...unless it was shewn by the prosecution to have been a voluntary statement, in the sense that it had not been obtained from him either by fear of prejudice...advantage exercised or held out by a person in authority. The principle was as old as Lord Hale. The burden of proof in the matter had been decided by high authority... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Criminal Appeal, Great Britain. Court of Appeal - 1917 - 344 sider
...in evidence against him unless it is shewn by the prosecution to have been a voluntary state nient, in the sense that it has not been obtained from him...fear of prejudice or hope of advantage exercised or hold out by a person in authority." Lord Sumner points out that the principle is certainly as old as... | |
 | 1918 - 880 sider
...the prosecution proved that it was a voluntary statement, in the sense that it had not been obtained either by fear of prejudice or hope of advantage exercised or held out by a person in authority. Held that the writing in question had been obtained voluntarily, and that the judge at the trial was... | |
 | Canada, W. J. Tremeear - 1919 - 1586 sider
...show that confession voluntary] — The prosecution must show that the statement of the accused was a voluntary statement, in the sense that it has not...advantage exercised or held out by a person in authority. B. v. Bodney (1918) 42 OLB 645, 648; Ibrahim v. The King [1914] AC 599; B. v. Voisin, (1918) 34 Times... | |
 | 1919 - 460 sider
...caution was not given, if it is shewn that such statements were voluntarily made, and were not obtained either by fear of prejudice or hope of advantage exercised or held out by a person in authority. (Ibrahim v. The King, [1914] AC 599; Rex v. Voisin, [1918] 1 KB. 531; Rex v. Spain (1917), 36 DLR 522,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Criminal Appeal - 1919 - 240 sider
...prosecution to have been a, voluntary statement, in the sense that it has not been obtained from hin: either by fear of prejudice or hope of advantage exercised or held out by a person in authority. The principle is as old as Lord Hale." Jo3 VotsiN. Lawrence J \ . . . . , , , , ,, The point of that... | |
 | 1922 - 352 sider
...evidence — Charge of keeping common bawdyhome — Admission by accused of being the " occupant." — No statement by an accused is admissible in evidence...advantage exercised or held out by a person in authority. — On a trial for keeping a common bawdyhouse evidence (objected to by accused's counsel) w.as given... | |
 | 1922 - 456 sider
...criminal law that no statement by an accused is admissible in evidence against him unless it is shewn by the prosecution to have been a voluntary statement...hope of advantage exercised or held out by a person 'n authority," and in the Thompson case, [1893] 2 QB 12, Cave, J., at p. 16 says : .1 "The material... | |
 | 1926 - 438 sider
...(headnote) : — "There being no evidence that sueh statements or confessions were induced or obtained 'by fear of prejudice or hope of advantage exercised or held out.' J It was precisely upon that ground that the late Chief Justice Lamothe and myself disagreed with the... | |
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It has long been established as a positive rule of English criminal law, that no statement by an accused is admissible in evidence against him unless it is shewn by the prosecution to have been a voluntary statement, in the sense that it has not been... 
