"A voluntary confession of guilt by a prisoner is sufficient to warrant conviction without corroborative evidence if it is direct, positive, duly made and satisfactorily proved. It is however desirable...
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"An accused person who wants to resile from or retract his earlier confessional statement which he made extra-judiciously to the police, such a statement is not rendered inadmissible by the...
"Where the extra-judicial statement in the nature of a confession is subsequently denied or retracted by an accused person (as is usually and mostly the case) in his evidence before...
"A confession is, by virtue of section 27(1) of the Evidence Act an admission made at any time by a person charged with a crime stating or suggesting that he...
EVIDENCE LAW – Confessional Statement – Retracted Confession – Conviction Solely on Confession
"It is well settled that an accused can be convicted on his confession statement which is consistent with other ascertained facts which had been proved. A confession statement does not...
"The wrongful admission of evidence shall not of itself be a ground for the reversal of any decision in any case, where it shall appear to the court on appeal...
"It often happens that statements have to be made to the Police through an illiterate interpreter and so cannot be written down in the language in which made. What this...
"A confessional statement, so long as it is free and voluntary and it is direct, positive and properly proved, is enough to sustain a conviction. The court should not, however,...
"The test for determining the veracity or otherwise of a confessional statement is to seek any other evidence, be it slight, of circumstances which make it probable that the confession...
"It is not the requirement of any law that if a confessional statement has not been read over and confirmed before a Superior Police Officer, it will ipso facto cease...
"The question of the voluntariness of a statement is tested at the time the statement is sought to be tendered in evidence. Where statements were tendered without any objection from...
"A free and voluntary confession of guilt whether judicial or extrajudicial, if it is direct and positive and properly established is sufficient proof of guilt and is enough to sustain...