 | Sir William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1877 - 900 pages
...testimony of two witnesses, either both to the same overt act, or one of them to one, and the other of them to another overt act of the same treason ; unless the party indicted shall willingly, (a) As to the rulo on this subject before the above Act, see 2 Pliill. Ev. 450. Wright ยป.... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves - Criminal law - 1877 - 780 pages
...testimony of two witnesses, either both to the same overt act, or one of them to one, and the other of them to another overt act of the same treason ; unless the party indicted contradict the witness, as to which Erle, J., said, "The point is one upon which judges have differed,... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Cross-examination - 1883 - 836 pages
...witnesses, either both of them to the same overt act, or one of them to one, and the other of them to another overt act of the same treason ; unless the party indicted, and arraigned, or tried, shall willingly without violence, in open court, confess the same, or shall... | |
 | Edmund Powell, John Cutler, Edmund Fuller Griffin - Evidence (Law) - 1885 - 772 pages
...but upon the oaths and testimony of two lawful witnesses, either both to the same overt act or one to one, and the other to another, overt act of the same treason, unless the accused shall willingly and without violence in open court confess the same; and if two or more distinct... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael - Constitutional history - 1886 - 870 pages
...any doubts as to the statute of Edw. VI. by requiring the oaths of two lawful witnesses, either both to the same overt act, or one of them to one, and...another overt act of the same treason ; unless the prisoner shall willingly, without violence, in open court, confess the charge. It limits prosecutions... | |
 | India, Matthew Henry Starling - 1886 - 684 pages
...law the two witnesses in cases of treason must testify, " either both to the same overt act, or one to one and the other to another overt act of the same treason, unless the accused shall openly, without violence, confess the same ; and further, that if two or more distinct... | |
 | New York (State). - Law - 1886 - 902 pages
...witnesses, either both of them to the same overt act, or treason, one of them to one, and the other of them to another overt act, of the same treason ; unless the party indicted and arraigned, or tried, shall willingly, without violence, in open court, confess the same, or in... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1895 - 894 pages
...upon the oaths and testimony of two lawful icittiffiscft, either both to the same overt act, or one to one and the other to another overt act of the same treason, unless the accused shall willingly without violence, in open court, confess the same ;s and further, that if two... | |
 | India, Tarapada Banerji - 1896 - 738 pages
...but upon the oaths and testimony of two lawful witnesses, either both to the same overt act, or one to one, and the other to another overt act of the same treason, unless the accused shall oponly without violence confess the same ; and further, that, if two or more distinct... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Great Britain - 1900 - 692 pages
...same treason] cither both of them to the same overt act, or one of them to one and another of them to another overt act of the same treason, unless the party indicted. . . . refuse to plead or in ca*es of high treason shall peremptorily challenge. Section vii. (Clause... | |
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Treason, but by and upon the Oaths and Testimony of Two lawful Witnesses, either both of them to the same Overt Act, or one of them to one, and the other of them to another Overt Act of the same Treason ; unless the Party indicted, and arraigned, or tried,... 
