| George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens - Constitutional history - 1901 - 598 pages
...lawful witnesses, either 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 and arraigned or tried shall willingly, without violence, in open court confess the same, or shall... | |
| Law - 1909 - 684 pages
...be indicted, tried, or attainted (m) of high treason or misprision of treason except upon the oath of two lawful witnesses, either both of them to the...another overt act of the same treason, unless the accused willingly and without violence in open court confesses the same, or stands mute, or refuses... | |
| Maryland, Julian J. Alexander - Law - 1912 - 604 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... | |
| Arthur Pierre Poley - Australia - 1913 - 480 pages
...treason 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 ; and, further, it was declared, that if two or more distinct treasons of divers heads or kinds were... | |
| E. Neville Williams - 484 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... | |
| Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History - History - 1996 - 540 pages
...I have referred to, or of misprision of such treason, unless upon the oaths of two lawful witneses, either both of them to the same overt act, or one...other to another overt act of the same treason, unless upon his own confession of his guilt, which confession it has been determined is admissible in evidence,... | |
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