Consider the passage given below and answer the question. Confession under section 24 of the Indian Evidence Act, implies an assertion made by blamed individual which is proposed to prove against him to establish a crime. The Supreme Court of India has observed that the confession should either concede concerning the offense or anyway, the real factors that comprise the offense. The admission of gravely incriminating fact, even conclusively incriminating fact isn't a confession itself. The assertion that contains self-exculpatory or other matter can't amount to a confession, in the event that the exculpatory assertion is of similar facts which, if valid, would negative the offense claimed to be admitted. The assertion which when read all in all is of exculpatory character and in which the detainee denies his culpability isn't confession, and can't be utilized in evidence to prove this liability.

"Confession is an admission made at any time by a person charged with a crime stating or suggesting the inference that he committed that crime.” Who among the following gave this definition of confession?

Justice Salmond Justice Stephens Lord Macaulay Justice Henry Maine

Justice Stephens

Justice Stephen in his 'Digest of the law of evidence states, "confession is an admission made at any time by a person charged with a crime stating or suggesting the inference that he committed that crime.”