Assertion: verbal confession | /r/CapableOf | rest in the memory of witnesses
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text: They are deliberately made, and being reduced to writing, subscribed by the prisoner, certified by a magistrate, or consisting of a solemn plea, made at the bar of the court, and entered of record, are precisely identified, and free from the inherent infirmity of all mere verbal confessions, made out of court, resting in the memory of witnesses, and depending for their value upon the fidelity and accuracy of their repetition.”