 | Aaron Burr - 1808 - 608 páginas
...things, that if the question be of such a description, that an answer to it may or may not criminate the witness, according to the purport of that answer,...answer the question or not. If, in such a case, he say, upon his oath, that his answer would criminate himself, the court can demand no other testimony... | |
 | David Robertson - 1808 - 618 páginas
...himself, who alone can tell what it would be, to answer the question or not. If, in such a case, he say, upon his oath, that his answer would criminate himself,...of the fact. If the declaration be untrue, it is in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath; as it... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1835 - 302 páginas
...things, that if the question be of such a description that an answer to it may or may not criminate the witness, according to the purport of that answer,...answer the question or not. If, in such a case, he say upon his oath, that his answer would criminate himself, the court can demand no other testimony... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1835 - 302 páginas
...himself, who alone can tell what it would be, to answer the question or not. If, in such a case, he say upon his oath, that his answer would criminate himself,...of the fact. If the declaration be untrue, it is in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath; as it... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 772 páginas
...that an answer to it may or may not criminate the witness, according to the purport of that anpwer. it must rest with himself, who alone can tell what...of the fact. If the declaration be untrue, it is in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath ; as... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1907 - 832 páginas
...things, that, if the question be of such a description that an answer to it may or may not criminate the witness, according to the purport of that answer,...answer the question or not. If, in such a case, he say upon his oath that his answer would criminate himself, the court can demand no other testimony... | |
 | Joseph Gales - 1852 - 774 páginas
...things, that if the question be of such a description that an answer to it may or may not criminate the witness, according to the purport of that answer,...himself, who alone can tell what it would be, to answer ihe question or not. If, in such a case, he says upon his oath that his answer would criminate himself,... | |
 | 1892 - 582 páginas
...himself, said: "If the question be of such a description that an answer to it may or may not criminate the witness, according to the purport of that answer,...what it would be, to answer the question or not. If iu such a case he say, upon hlI oath, that his answer would criminate himself, the court can demand... | |
 | 1907 - 2094 páginas
...answer to It may or may not criminate the witness, according to the purport of that answer, it must pest with himself, who alone can tell what it would be,...answer the question or not. If, in such a case, he say upon his oath tlmt his answer would criminate himself, the court can demand no other testimony... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1892 - 1066 páginas
...himself, said: "If the question be of such a description that an answer to it ma.v or may not criminate the witness, according to -the purport of that answer,...can tell what it would be, to answer the question or eii'>t. If, in such а сане, he say, upon his goath, that his answer would criminate • himself,... | |
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It follows necessarily then, from this statement of things, that if the question be of such a description that an answer to it may or may not criminate the witness, according to the purport of that answer, it must rest with himself, who alone can tell... 
