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Title: Twining v. State New Jersey.
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 09, 1908
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 87 KB

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In the view we take of the case we do not deem it necessary to consider whether, with respect to the Federal question, there is any difference in the situation of the two defendants. It is assumed, in respect of each, that the jury were instructed that they might draw an unfavorable inference against him from his failure to testify, where it was within his power, in denial of the evidence which tended to incriminate him. The law of the State, as declared in the case at bar, which accords with other decisions (Parker v. State, 61 N.J.L. 308; State v. Wines, 65 N.J.L. 31; State v. Zdanowicz, 69 N.J.L. 619; State v. Banuski, 64 Atl. Rep. 994), permitted such an inference to be drawn. The judicial act of the highest court of the