 | Samuel March Phillipps - 1822 - 644 pages
...the admissibility of dying declarations is, that they are admissible only in criminal prosecutions, where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge against the prisoner. On a question of pedigree, it has been lately determined, in an action of ejectment,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1824 - 1040 pages
...decisions proceeded, but within the general rule, that evidence of this description is only admissible where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the dying declaration, (a) The affidavits were rejected. (a) The same point was ruled... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1824 - 1082 pages
...: Held, that it could not be read ; for that dying declarations are admissible only where the death is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the declaration. The King on the Prosecution of James Law v. William Mead, H. 4&5G.4.... | |
 | James Dowling, Archer Ryland, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1825 - 638 pages
...SMUGGLERS, 3, 4. 1. It is a general rule in criminal cases that dying declarations are admissible only where the death of the deceased is the subject of...circumstances of the death are the subject of the dying declaration ; therefore, where a defendant had been convicted of perjury, and had obtained a rule nisi... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Dowling, Archer Ryland - 1825 - 888 pages
...&. 5 G. 4. 37 3. It is a general rule in criminal cases that dying declarations are admissible only where the death of the deceased is the subject of...circumstances of the death are the subject of the dying declaration ; therefore, where a defendant had been convicted of perjury, and had obtained a rule nisi... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Dowling, Archer Ryland - 1825 - 664 pages
...evidence of this description is only admissible where the death of the deceased is the subject of inquiry, and the circumstances of the death are the subject of the dying declaration. There may be exceptions to this general rule ; but this is not one. That part of the dying... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1828 - 836 pages
...declarations, although made with a full consciousness of approaching death, are only admissible in evidence where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the dying declaration, (v) In a late case the defendant having been convicted of perjury,... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1828 - 604 pages
...' 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 Robinson - 1829 - 258 pages
...1796. These declarations are only admissible where the death of the deceased is the subject of inquiry, and the circumstances of the death are the subject of the dying declarations, and the Ct. would not admit a declaration of the dying person agt. any one ind. for perjury. Rex v.... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1831 - 1154 pages
...of KB held, that it could not be read ; for dying declarations are admissible only where the death is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death are the subject of the declaration. So, in trials for robbery, the dying declarations of the party robbed are rejected. Per... | |
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... where the death of the deceased is the subject of the charge, and the circumstances of the death the subject of the dying declarations (2). 
