| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 1082 pages
...defendant was convicted, Pr°fec"t'on for ' ' perjury arose : Held, that it could not be read ; for that dying declarations are admissible only where the death...of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the declaration. 1824. consisted in MeacCs swearing, upon the trial of an information... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 1040 pages
...transaction out of which the prosecution for perjury arose : Held, that it could not be read; for that dyiag declarations, are admissible only where the death...of the charge, and the circumstances, of the death the subject of the declaration. The King on the Prosecution of James Lauiv. n'illinni Mead, H. 4&5G.4.... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 604 pages
...is incompetent; ' Ca., 1 Leach, CC 337, 1 East, PC 353, n. Dying declarations are only admissible, where the death is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the declaration ; R. v. Mead, 2 B. & C. 605, 4 D. & R. 120. (h) Or 10 Mod. /•',-•.... | |
| William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1828 - 836 pages
...consciousness is a question for the judge, ii. 687 only admissible, when the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge and the circumstances of the death the subject of the declaration, ii. 687 of a convict, ii. 687 of an accomplice, ii. 687, 688 parol... | |
| Nathan Dane - Law - 1829 - 956 pages
...Hawks, 442. 2 Barn. &i Cres. 605, Held, dying declarations are admissi- HI. CH. 89. ble only where death is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the dt.ath the subject of the declaration. Therelore, where the deft was convicted of perjury, a rule nisi... | |
| Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1831 - 1154 pages
...necessarily mortal, he might still have had a hope of recovery. The declarations are only admissible where the death is the subject of the charge, and...circumstances of the death are the subject of the declaration. Thus in a late case where the prisoner was indicted for administering savin to a woman pregnant, but... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...rule in criminal cases, that dying declarations are admissible only where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death are the subject of the dying declaration ; therefore, where a defendant had been convicted of perjury, and obtained a rule... | |
| Esek Cowen, Nicholas Hill - Evidence (Law) - 1839 - 906 pages
...;) and, as expressed in another case, Üiey can be received " only where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the declarations." (Rex v. Mead, 2 Barn. &, Cres. 605 ; SC cited in the text. They are... | |
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