long time, the Courts in India adopted the definition of "confession" given in Article 22 of Stephen ... Digest of the Law of Evidence. According to that definition, a confession is an admission made at any time by a person charged with crime
prove his guilt. Such a statement is admission but not confession. Such a definition was brought out by Chandawarkar, J., in R v. Santya Bandhu ... confession, held that a statement suggesting the inference that the prisoner had committed the crime would amount to confession. Such a definition would no longer
Criminal P.C., was not a confession. We accept the definition of confession as given by Stephen and which has been quoted in the judgment ... from the same that the statement fits in with the definition of "confession" as given by Stephen. The statement is self-incriminatory
those are extra judicial confession. In absence of other fact proven to corroborate the facts disclosed in the extra judicial confession, it would be dangerous ... character of direct evidence and not circumstantial evidence. In absence of definition of confession, the Supreme Court dealt with the issue of admissibility of confessions
confession. There is no doubt that a confession made voluntarily by an accused person can be used against the maker of the confession, though ... Technically construed. this definition will not apply to a confession. Part (1) of the definition refers to oral statements which the court permits or requires
confession. There is no doubt that a confession made voluntarily by an accused person can be used against the maker of the confession, though ... Technically construed. this definition will not apply to a confession. Part (1) of the definition refers to oral statements which the court permits or requires
confession, if the exculpatory statement is of some fact which if true would negative the offence alleged to be confessed. Moreover a confession must either ... confession, in which its distinctive feature, as an admission or declaration, is lost in the broader term 'confessions'. A confession is a voluntary
Anand Prakash And Anr. vs Narain Das-Dori Lal And Anr. on 12 November, 1930
made by the prisoner on the 22nd September 1884, was a "confession" within the meaning of the Evidence Act , and, having been made ... evidence against him. In support of this contention, the definition of the term "confession" in Mr. Justice Stephen'S Digest
that case remarked--
"I must confess that the language of the definition of "industrial dispute" is so wide that, giving the words
