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1783. Sessions. [Thursday] June 12.

the Diamonds and other things he had stolen might be found. There was no Evidence against the Prisoner, but his own Confession, and discoveries arising from that Confession, and therefore the Chief Justice directed the Jury to acquit the Prisoner, as there was no Evidence but what arose from that Confession, and the discoveries which that Confession led to. And this ought to be consider’d as no Evidence, because
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