 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1910 - 726 sayfa
...where he said: "To entitle a party called as a witness to the privilege of silence, the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature...to the witness from his being compelled to answer." Applying this rule to the case at bar, we think it apparent that it does not appear from the averments... | |
 | 1863 - 788 sayfa
...; and that, to entitle a party called as a witness to the privilege of silence, the Court must see from the circumstances of ! the case, and the nature...to apprehend danger to the witness from his being i compelled to answer. We, indeed, quite agree that, if the fact of the witness being in danger be... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1846 - 734 sayfa
...witness to the privilege of not answering a question as tending to criminate him, the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature...to the witness from his being compelled to answer. If the fact of the witness being in danger be once made to appear, great latitude should be allowed... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 666 sayfa
...answering a question, on the ground that the answer would tend to criminate him, the Court must see, from the circumstances of the case, and the nature...to the witness from his being compelled to answer ; though, if fhe fact of the witness being in danger be once made to appear, great latitude should... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1865 - 680 sayfa
...witness to the privilege of not answering a question as tending to criminate him, the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature...danger to the witness from his being compelled to a?tsirer. If the fact of the witness being in danger be once made to appear, great latitude should... | |
 | 1882 - 826 sayfa
...answer will have that effect is not sufficient to excuse him from answering, but the Court must see, from the circumstances of the case, and the nature...there is reasonable ground to apprehend danger to him from his being compelled to answer. But, if it is once made to appear that the witness is in danger,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1869 - 646 sayfa
...answering a question, on the ground that the answer would tend to criminate him, the Court must see, from the circumstances of the case, and the nature...to the witness from his being compelled to answer ; though, if the fact of the witness being in danger be once made to appear, great latitude should... | |
 | 1884 - 550 sayfa
...propositions we are altogether unable to concur." But he goes on to say that " the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature...to the witness from his being compelled to answer," and also tbat the danger must be real und appreciable. That is on the whole the principal authority... | |
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to entitle a party called as a witness to the privilege of silence, the court must see, from the circumstances of the case and the nature of the evidence which the witness is called to give, that there is reasonable ground to apprehend danger to the... 
