retracting. Though as a matter of pure law, there may be nothing to prevent a court from convicting on a retracted confession alone, such confession ... a basis for conviction.
They have, therefore, as a matter of prudence, consistently declined to record a conviction on a retracted confession alone and have
materially. But as a matter of prudence and
caution, which has sanctified itself into a rule of law, a
retracted confession cannot be made solely ... statement of a
person making a confession who stands on a better footing,
one need only find out when there is a retraction whether
later
retracted by him in the Court of 'Session. It was contended
for the appellant that a retracted confession of an accused
cannot ... Court from taking into consideration a
retracted confession against the confessing accused and his
co-accused. Not a single decision of any of the courts
Patna held that though, as a matter of law, a conviction may be based upon a retracted confession if the Court can come ... induced and that a retracted confession could be made the basis of a conviction. When a confession is retracted, it is the duty
true that as a matter of law, a conviction can, in appropriate cases, be based only on a retracted judicial confession, it is equally well ... A Magistrate recording a confession should satisfy himself in every reasonable way that the confession is made voluntarily. The Magistrate should question a confessing prisoner
a case where it has been held
that if a judge believes that a confession made by a prisoner, although
subsequently withdrawn, contains a true ... merely a parrot-like repetition of a story
put into the man's mouth. The amount of credibility of a retracted confession
depends
a Court shall not base a conviction on such a confession without corroboration. It is not a rule of law, but is only, a rule ... laid down as a general rule of practice that it is unsafe to rely upon a confession, much less on a retracted confession, unless
confession was retracted before the committing Magistrate. It has also been retracted in this Court. The mere subsequent retraction of a confession, though no doubt ... because it is retracted; (2) as against the maker of the confession, the retracted confession may form the basis of a conviction
a Court shall not base a conviction on such a confession without corroboration. It is not a rule of law. but is only a rule ... laid down as a general rule of practice that it is unsafe to rely upon a confession much less on a retracted confession, unless
extent and the nature of the corroboration required before a retracted confession can be accepted or acted upon:
It may be remarked that there ... that as a matter of prudence and caution which has sanctified itself into a rule of law, a retracted confession cannot be made solely
