h*a
1 楼
There is a peculiar and sinister element in this case which
distinguishes it from all the others that have been cited
us, viz, that it provides for remuneration upon a sliding
scale corresponding in amount to the amount of the sentence
secured by the informer's evidence. This is so direct and
inevitable an incentive to perjury and other concomitant
nefarious conduct that it cannot be in the public interest
to contenance a transaction which is dangerous to such an
exceptional degree to the admini
distinguishes it from all the others that have been cited
us, viz, that it provides for remuneration upon a sliding
scale corresponding in amount to the amount of the sentence
secured by the informer's evidence. This is so direct and
inevitable an incentive to perjury and other concomitant
nefarious conduct that it cannot be in the public interest
to contenance a transaction which is dangerous to such an
exceptional degree to the admini