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7. It is a mistaken notion to hold that confessions are received in evidence or rejected as inadmissible upon consideration whether they are or are not entitled to credit. A free & voluntary confession deserves the highest credit, because it is presumed to flow from the strongest sense of guilt. It is, therefore, that a confession forced from the mind by flattery of hope, or torture of fear comes in so questionable shape, when it is to be considered as an evidence of guilt, that no credit ought to be given to it; &, therefore, it is, rejected. - ('R. v. Warickshall', (1783) I Leach 263: (168 ER (234).