Mittermaier

After the close of the Diet, Mr. Pulszky repaired to Heidelberg, to study more fully the subject of the criminal law with the celebrated Mittermaier.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Of course it is true, as Mittermaier says, that the utterance of witnesses is tested by its consistency with other evidence, but that is neither the only test nor the most valid, for there is always the more important internal test, in the first place; and in the second place, it is not conclusive because the comparison may reveal only inconsistency, but can not establish which of the conflicting statements is correct.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

Maudsley says that children often have illusions which seem to them indubitably real images, and Mittermaier says that they are superficial and have youthful fancies.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

At the same time, Mittermaier knew that the questioner was frequently unable to avoid them and that many questions had to suggest their answers.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

"If we ask," says Mittermaier, "for the reason of our conviction of the truth of facts even in very important matters, and the basis of every judgment concerning existence of facts, we find that the evidence of the senses is final and seems, therefore, the only true source of certainty."

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

Mittermaier has pointed out that the light-minded, accidental witness sees only the nearest characteristics.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

Finally, there is the fact Mittermaier has pointed to -- the importance of the criminalist's own culture and character.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

The Bambergensis (Art. 76), for example, permits the admission of young persons and women only in special cases, and the quarrels of the older lawyers concerning the value of feminine testimony is shown by Mittermaier. 6

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

Mittermaier, and indeed Bentham, have shown what an influence the interval between observation and announcement exercises on the form of exposition.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

Mittermaier observed that, if in England and Scotland there were far fewer cases of false witness, perjury, and resistance to authority than in Ireland and on the Continent, this must be due in great measure to national character, which is one of the hereditary elements of normal as well as of abnormal and criminal life.

Criminal Sociology 1899