 | Jonathan Fisher - 2003 - 734 sider
...danger to the witness from being called to answer. The danger. . .must be real and appreciable with reference to the ordinary operation of law in the...course of things; not a danger of an imaginary and insubstantial character." (R. v Boyes [1861] 1 B.&S. 3.11 Per Cockburn, CJ; Cited in Harris and Murray;... | |
 | Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals - 1922 - 796 sider
...also : "We are of the opinion that the danger to be apprehended must be real and appreciable, with reference to the ordinary operation of law in the...reasonable man would suffer it to influence his conduct." If the question is raised by the record before us, we think the cases of Jack v. Kansas, 199 US 372,... | |
 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - 1921 - 1328 sider
...existence of the right not to testify that the danger to be apprehended is real and appreciable, with reference to the ordinary operation of law, in the...that no reasonable man would suffer it to influence hia conduct.* The law docs not permit a witness arbitrarily to hide behind a fancied or intangible... | |
 | Kansas. Supreme Court, Elliot V. Banks, William Craw Webb, Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph, Gasper Christopher Clemens, Thomas Emmet Dewey, Llewellyn James Graham, Oscar Leopold Moore, Earl Hilton Hatcher, Howard Franklin McCue - 1905 - 1060 sider
...and probable danger, with reference to the ordinary operations of the law in the ordinary courts, but 'a danger of an imaginary and unsubstantial character,...reasonable man would suffer it to influence his conduct.' Such danger it was never the object of the provision to obviate. The same answer may be made to the... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - 1890 - 608 sider
...criminate him if he is compelled to answer. The danger to be apprehended must be real and appreciable with reference to the ordinary operation of law, in the ordinary course of things, and not imaginary or unsubstantial, or a mere remote and naked possibility. Conspiracy — Evidence... | |
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The danger to be apprehended must be real and appreciable with reference to the ordinary operation of law in the ordinary course of things ; not a danger of an imaginary and unsubstantial character, having reference to some extraordinary and barely possible... 
