Judicial confession
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In the law of evidence. A confession of guilt, made by a prisoner before a magistrate, or in court, in the due course of legal proceedings.
1 Greenl. Ev. § 216; White v. State, 49 Ala. 348; U. S. v. Williams, 28 Fed. Cas. 643 ; State v. Lamb, 28 Mo. 218; Speer v. State, 4 Tex. App. 479.