The voluntariness of a confession is based on a totality of the circumstances test.

Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability; … it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

Afore me is a mild protestation, — a sort of oath, or oathlet.

With an abandonness Thirumathi Ananthanayaki said 'Perhaps we have developed immunity to these poisons (from adulterants) that is why we do not seem to have much ill effects'.