 | Edward Hyde East - Criminal law - 1806 - 556 pages
...is matter of evidence. The statute of William directs, that " no evidence shall 7 W. 3. c. 3. s. a be admitted or given of any overt act that is not expressly hud in the indictment against any person or persons whatsoever." This rule, though expressly prescribed... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1811 - 174 pages
...of the act. lhid. i Two Ibbl. s. IS. Furthermore by the same statute, no evidence shall u,id. ,. m. be admitted or given of any overt act that is not...laid in the indictment against any person or persons ta i"0 whatsoever. VI. Of the forfeitures consequent on a conviction of treason. So by the same statute,... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 728 pages
...one of them to one, arid the other of them to another overt act of the same species of treason : and that no evidence shall be admitted or given of any...act that is not expressly laid in the indictment. I think we need not, at present, enter into the whole of the case, or trouble the Court with a long... | |
 | Joseph Gabbett - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 590 pages
...to another, shall not be deemed to be 2 witnesses within this act. And by s. 8. no evidence shall be given of any overt act that is not expressly laid in the indictment. This act further proIf • vides (s. 7.) tlut every person who shall be indicted and tried for such... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 754 pages
...Yes, my lord, I take it that it is ; for the new act, by saying, ' that no evidence shall be admitted of any overt act that is not expressly laid in the indictment,' must be intended of such treasons, of which by law overt acts ought to he laid. Now the killing of... | |
 | Samuel March Phillipps - Evidence (Law) - 1815 - 600 pages
...unprepared and at once, for every action of liis life. In treason, therefore, no evidence is to bo admitted of any overt act, that is not expressly laid in the indictment. This was the rule at common law ; and it is again prescribed and enforced by the statute (i) of Wm.... | |
 | Trials - 1816 - 748 pages
...my lord, I take it that it is ; for the new act, by saying, ' that no evi' deuce shall be admitted of any overt act that < is not expressly laid in the indictment,' must be intended of such treasons, of which by lawovert acts ought to he luid. Now the killing of the... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1818 - 724 pages
...witnesses to the same treason within the meaning of the act. And a third provision of the act was, that no evidence shall be admitted or given of any overt act, that was not expressly laid in the indictment. These are some of the important regulations established by... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1818 - 732 pages
...witnesses to the same treason within the meaning of the act. And a third provision of the act was, that no evidence shall be admitted or given of any overt act, that was not expressly laid in the indictment. These are some of the important regulations established by... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Criminal law - 1819 - 584 pages
...substance and intent of them, 4 East, 171. 6 East, 426. 1 East, PC 121. 124. The statute of William directs that " no evidence shall be admitted or given of any...indictment, against any person or persons whatsoever." Id. ibid. The true sense of this clause is, that no overt act amounting to a distinct independent charge,... | |
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That no Evidence shall be admitted or given of any Overt Act that is not expressly laid in the Indictment against any Person or Persons whatsoever. 
