United States v. Bascadore

(nem. con.) upon the authority of McNally, p. 47, Rule 12, rejected the testimony, no goods having been found in consequence of the confession. The statute of Phillip and Mary does not say whether the confession should be upon oath or not. From the silence of the act in that respect the judges have drawn the inference that the confession is not to be upon Oath; and it is said that policy forbids the using of such declarations against the prisoner.