State v. Grant

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• defendant urged by a witness to make a confession to “save his brother”
• “[A] confession forced from the mind by the flattery of hope, or by the torture of fear, comes in so questionable a shape, when it is to be considered as the evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it . . . .” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Collins
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1972-12-08· cited 176×
• State v. Patterson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1881-04-15· cited 83×
• State v. Snethen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-08-30· cited 64×
• State of Maine v. Rondon Athayde
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2022-07-05· cited 24×
• Harris v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1916-01-04· cited 17×
• Allen v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1876-05-15· cited 9×
• United States v. Kambeitz
  N.D. New York· 1919-03-07· cited 7×
• State v. York
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1858-07-15· cited 3×