7. Confessions, Admissions, Incriminating statements

I. Before examination of defendant.

A. Self-incriminating

Admissible

Inadmissible ....

Inducement

Artifice or deception

Questioning....

In legal proceedings

Declarations accompanying acts

B. Incrimination by another

(i) Before trial.

Defendant's silence-denial

By co-defendant

Agents ....

C. Tacit admissions

II. At examination of defendant.

8. Examination of defendant-Indictable offences.

(ii) Before justices.

A. Depositions of witnesses (not defendant).

Use at trial

Absent, &c. witness

No deposition-Informality

Additional evidence-Notice

Informality: deposition improperly received

Presence of defendant: Cross-examination

Omissions

For the defence

(iii) Before coroners

(iv) In India, abroad, &c.

B. Statement of the defendant.

I. Before the Criminal Evidence A. 1898.

Statute .....

71

J Z Z ZZZZ

73

75

75

II. Since the Criminal Evidence A. 1898.

Defendant's deposition

The Criminal Evidence A.

77

77-9

c. Contradiction and cross-examination of witness

Female witness-sexual offence

118

118

Proviso to s. 4 (1) of the Criminal Appeal A.

121

Approvers, agents provocateurs, informers, &c.

V. Examination.

i. Preliminary points.

Witnesses out of court

Trial in camera

149

149-50

150

150

150

151

151-2

152

152

152-4

154

154-6

158

158