Case Name: The State v. David Thomson
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1787-11
Citations: 1 Kirby 345
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. David Thomson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 345–345

Head Matter:
The State v. David Thomson.
ON an indictment, for passing a counterfeit loan-office certificate, tbe counsel for tbe prisoner objected to tbe witnesses testifying anything which tbe prisoner bad said to them confidentially, when endeavoring to persuade them to use their influence, that be might be improved as a witness against bis associates:— But,

Opinion:
By tbe whole Coubt.
When disclosures of that kind have been made to tbe authority examining, or to tbe state's attorney,' under such circumstances, that tbe person disclosing considered himself as a witness, tbe court have never allowed it to be given in evidence against him; — but this indulgence baa not been extended further.