 It is the- province of the court to judge, whether any direct answer to the question which may be proposed, will furnish evidence against the witness. If such answer may disclose a fact, which forms a necessary and essential link in the chain of testimony,...  Annals of the Congress of the United States - Stran 705avtor: United States. Congress - 1852Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | United States - 1918 - 1138 strani
...direct answer to the question which may be proposed will furnish evidence against the witness. If such answer may disclose a fact which forms a necessary...essential link in the chain of testimony, which would be sufiicient to convict him of any crime, hr is not bound to answer it BO as to furnish matter for that... | |
 | Illinois - 1919 - 336 strani
...questions, the effect of which is to establish criminality. If, as the court has said, the answer would disclose a fact which forms a necessary and essential...bound to answer it, so as to furnish matter for that conviction.27 And if a witness voluntarily discloses part of a transaction exposing him to criminal... | |
 | Edward Wilcox Hinton - 1919 - 1136 strani
...proposed will furnish evidence against the witness. If such answer may disclose a fact which forms the necessary and essential link in the chain of testimony,...answer it, so as to furnish matter for that conviction; but if the question propounded does not disclose upon its face that it will have such tendency, and... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 922 strani
...against himself. Hibbard e. US (1009), 172 Fed. 00, 90 С1 С. A. 554, 18 Ann. Cas. 1040. If any direct answer may disclose a fact which forms a necessary...of testimony which would be sufficient to convict the witness of any crime, he is not bound to answer It, so as to furnish matter for that conviction.... | |
 | Archibald Hall Throckmorton - 1924 - 594 strani
...proposed will furnish evidence against the witness. If such answer may disclose a fact which forrn% a necessary and essential link in the chain of testimony...answer it so as to furnish matter for that conviction." It will be observed from the authorities cited that a witness is not rec^uired_to_go on and answer... | |
 | 1882 - 578 strani
...direct answer to the question which may be proposed will furnish evidence against the witness. If such answer may disclose a fact, which forms a necessary...must himself judge what his answer will be; and if he say on oath that he can not answer w'thout accusing himself, he cannot be compelled to answer.' In... | |
 | 1896 - 554 strani
...a link in a chain of evidence, become the means of bringing home an offense to the party answering. In such a case the witness must himself judge what his answer will be, and if he say, on oath, that he cannot answer without accusing himself, he cannot be compelled to answer." The... | |
 | United States - 1930 - 1514 strani
...to furnish evidence against himself. ШЬbard v. US (1009), 172 Fed. 66. If any dirc'ct answer mny disclose a fact which forms a necessary and essential...of testimony which would be sufficient to convict the witness of any crime, he is not bound to answer it, so as to furnish matter for that conviction.... | |
 | United States - 1930 - 1540 strani
...essential link In the chain of testimony which would be sufficient to convict the witness of any crime, be is not bound to answer It, so as to furnish matter for that conviction. U. 8. v. Burr (CC 1807), Fed. Cas. No. 14692e. An officer Is not bound to be a witness against himself... | |
 | 1895 - 1070 strani
...him"; citing many decided English cases. In 1 Burr, Trials, 245, Chief Justice Marshall says: "If such answer may disclose a fact which forms a necessary...essential link in the chain of testimony which would bo sufficient to convict him of any crime, he is not bound to answer it so as to furnish matter for... | |
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