R v Silvester Thornton
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1824 |
| Date | 01 January 1824 |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
English Reports Citation: 168 E.R. 1171
LINCOLN'S INN
S. C. 1 Lew. C. C. 49 Referred to, R. v. Gillis, 1866, 14 W. R. 845; Ibrahim v. R., [1914] A. C. 599.
1824. rex e. siltestbb thornton. (A confession obtained without threat or promise from a boy fourteen years old, by questions put by a police officer, in whose custody the boy was on a charge of felony, and when he had no food for nearly a whole day, held rightly received.) [S. C. 1 Lew. C. C. 49 Referred to, R. v. Gtlks, 1866, 14 W. R. 845 ; Ibrahim v. R., [1914] A. C. 599.] 1172 BEX V. JAMES THOMAS BOYCE 1 MOOD. 28. The prisoner, a lad of fourteen years of age, was tried and convicted before Mr. Justice Bayley at the Lent Assizes for the county of Lancaster, in the year 1824, but as the foundation of his conviction was his own confession, the learned Judge postponed passing sentence until he could take the opinion of the Judges, whether that confession was properly receivable in evidence A persort of the name of Miller, the chief officer of the police at Liverpool, stated, that on the 18th of November the prisoner was apprehended, by his directions, without any warrant, between twelve and one o'clock, and that he was carried to the police office about one o'clock. The magistrates were then sitting at a very short distance, and continued sitting till between two and three, and till the business presented to them was finished. ; but the prisoner was not carried before them because the police officer was engaged elsewhere. The officer ordered the prisoner to Bridewell, of his own authority, betwee.n four and five o'clock ; and between five and six o'clock he told the prisoner, that in consequence of the falsehoods [28] the prisoner had told, and the prevarications he had made, there was no doubt but he had set the premises on fire , and he therefore asked him if any person had been concerned with him, or induced him to do it? The prisoner said he had not done it The police officer replied, that he would not have told so many...
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