 | Canada. Parliament. Senate - 1893 - 634 páginas
...would miiount to nothing. Hon. Mr. POWER — Then the proviso is i\ot necessary. Hon. Mr. ANGERS— The failure of the person charged, or of the wife...testify shall not be made the subject of comment by counsel. Hon. Mr. LOUGHEED— In the draft of the Bill .which came to us from the Commons the word... | |
 | Canada - 1893 - 1192 páginas
...of 1893, 56 V. c. 81, s. 4, it is enacted that the failure of the accused or of his wife or husband to testify shall not be made the subject of comment by the judge or by counsel for the prosecution in addressing the jury. The defence. — The defendant cannot have the assistance of counsel in examining... | |
 | William Fuller Alves Boys - 1893 - 484 páginas
...The Canada Evidence Act, 1893, a. 4. "5C. &P. 236. »7C. &P. 168. 'Jervis, OC 260. » 8 C. & P. 107. failure of the person charged or of the wife or husband of such person to testify, is not to be made the subject of comment by the coroner or by counsel for the prosecution in addressing... | |
 | Canada - 1894 - 1076 páginas
...shall be competent to disclose any communication made to her by her husband during their marriage. 2. The failure of the person charged, or of the wife...comment by the Judge or by Counsel for the prosecution in addressing the Jury. Will this Article render a defendant competent as a witness on his own behalf... | |
 | Arthur Reginald Butterworth - 1898 - 142 páginas
...shall be competent to disclose any communication made to her by her husband during their marriage. (2.) The failure of the person charged, or of the wife...comment by the Judge, or by counsel for the prosecution in addressing the jury.1 1 See ante, p. 18. 5. Incriminating answers.] — No person shall be excused... | |
 | 1898 - 680 páginas
...Sub-sec. 2, of sec. 4, c. 31, of the Acts of the Dominion Parliament for 1893, provides that : — "The failure of the person charged, or of the wife...subject of comment by the judge or by counsel for the prosecu tion in addressing the jury." In the case before us, the wife of the accused did not testify,... | |
 | 1906 - 606 páginas
...the comments referred to, had infringed the provision or sub-sec. 2 of sec. 4, which enacts that " the failure of the person charged or of the wife or...not be made the subject of comment by the Judge or counsel for the prosecution in addressing the jury." We are of opinion that the learned trial Judge... | |
 | 1899 - 604 páginas
...or husband, as the case may be, of the person so charged, shall be a competent witness. Sub-sect. 2: The failure of the person charged, or of the wife...prosecution. The final result of the discussions which have gone on for so many years in this country was the passing of the Criminal Evidence Act, 1898,... | |
 | 1899 - 704 páginas
...of the accused to testify. The words of the statute are: "(2) The failure of the person charged * * to testify, shall not be made the subject of comment by the Judge or by counsel for the prosecution in addressing the jury." It was hardly contended that what was said by the learned Judge was not a... | |
 | Ontario. High Court of Justice - 1899 - 832 páginas
...the accused to testify. The words of the statute are : " (2) The failure of the person charged * * to testify, shall not be made the subject of comment by the Judge or by counsel for the prosecution in addressing the jury." It was hardly contended that what was said by the learned Judge was not a... | |
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The failure of the person charged, or of the wife or husband of such person, to testify, shall not be made the subject of comment by the judge, or by counsel for the prosecution. 
