Case ID: dc_1/html/0099-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The CouRT", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Smith v. Carolin.
    If there he a subscribing -witness to an instrument, evidence of the confession of the defendant will not dispense with the testimony of the subscribing witness.
    Debt on a promissory note. Mr. Jones, for the plaintiff, produced a note having a subscribing witness who was not present in court, and offered to prove that the defendant acknowledged the note to be his.
    
      Mr. Youngs, for the defendant,
    objected, and cited Esp. N. P. 256, 781.
   The CouRT

refused to admit the testimony, on the general ground that the non-production of the subscribing witness induces a suspicion that if produced, he would testify something to the defendant’s advantage. Peake, L. E. 7, 64, 65, 66.

Kilty,

C. J., contra.

The plaintiff became nonsuit.