Incrimination
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The Vth Amendment of the United States constitution provides that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be witness against himself.” A witness may refuse to furnish evidence which will incriminate himself; Counselman V. Hitchcock, 142 U. S. 547, 12 Sup. Ct. 195, 85 L. Ed. 1110. That the seizure or compulsory production of a man’s private papers to be used in evidence against him is equivalent to compelling him to be a witness against himself was held in Boyd v. U. S., 116 U. S. 616, 6 Sup. Ct. 524, 29 L. Ed. 746;