| 1892 - 582 páginas
...give them in a criminal case. It is impossible that the meaning of the constitutional provision onn only be that a person shall not be compelled to be a witness against himself in a criminal prosecation against himself. It would doubtless cover such cases, bnt it is not limited to them. The... | |
| 1914 - 1440 páginas
...leading case of Counselman v. Hitchcock, 142 US 517, 562, 12 Sup. Ct. 195, 198 (35 L. Ed. 1110) said: "It is Impossible that the meaning of the constitutional...insure that a person should not be compelled, when actlug as a witness In any Investigation, to give testimony which might tend to show that he had himself... | |
| 1904 - 1246 páginas
...United States, and construed this constitutional provision as meaning, not only that a person should not be compelled to be a witness against himself in a criminal proceeding, but that its object was to insure a person from being compelled to give testimony as a... | |
| William Miller Collier - 1900 - 918 páginas
...that " It is impossible that the meaning of the constitutional prog 7.] Criminating Questions. vision can only be, that a person shall not be compelled to be a witness against himself in a prosecution against himself. It would doubtless cover such cases; but it is not limited to them. The... | |
| Charles Zebina Lincoln - 1906 - 840 páginas
...follows." People ex rel. Burby v. Howlond (1898) 155 NY 270, 41 LRA 838, 49 NE 775Discussing the provision that a person shall not be compelled to be a witness against himself, Judge Denio, in People ex rel. Hackley v. Kelly (1861) 24 NY 74, makes an important observation... | |
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