Sweating
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The questioning of a percerning his connection with crime or knowledge thereof, after he has been arrested and in custody, by plying him with questions or by threats or other wrongful means, extorting from him information to be used against him as testimony upon his trial for such alleged crime.
153 Ky. 412, 155 S. W. 1131, Ann. Cas. 1915C 134.