American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials which Have Taken Place in the United States, from the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day : with Notes and Annotations, Volume 11

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John Davison Lawson
Thomas Law Book Company, 1919
 

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Halaman 809 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Halaman 601 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Halaman 205 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Halaman 330 - ... of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Halaman 101 - That in cases punishable with death, the trial shall be had in the county where the offence was committed, or where that cannot be done without great inconvenience, twelve petit jurors at least shall be summoned from thence.
Halaman 206 - And the House of Representatives, by protestation, saving to themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any further articles or other accusation, or impeachment against the said...
Halaman 203 - I—That, unmindful of the solemn duties of his office, and contrary to the sacred obligations by which he stood bound to discharge them, faithfully and impartially, and without respect to persons...
Halaman 237 - The late alteration of the Federal Judiciary by the abolition of the office of the sixteen circuit judges, and the recent change in our State Constitution by the establishing of universal suffrage, and the further alteration that is contemplated in our State judiciary (if adopted) will in my judgment take away all security for property and personal liberty.
Halaman 44 - ... interest, risings to effect these ends by force and numbers, are by construction of law within the clause of levying war. For they are levelled at the king's crown and royal dignity.
Halaman 780 - England, particularly the closing clause, in which an act is declared to be malicious, which shows " a heart regardless of social duty and fatally bent on mischief.

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