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 AnnotationsJohn Davison Lawson Thomas Law Books, 1914 |
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Halaman vii
... whole character is changed and her affections are inverted . No criminals are so hardened , none go through the ordeal of a public trial or endure a death of shame with more calmness and apparent innocence than the woman . " When Enoch ...
... whole character is changed and her affections are inverted . No criminals are so hardened , none go through the ordeal of a public trial or endure a death of shame with more calmness and apparent innocence than the woman . " When Enoch ...
Halaman 11
... whole controversy and the reasons for his course and announcing his intention of returning to the state , which he did a few days later , and was at once arrested for treason and kept in jail in Providence until February , 1844 , when ...
... whole controversy and the reasons for his course and announcing his intention of returning to the state , which he did a few days later , and was at once arrested for treason and kept in jail in Providence until February , 1844 , when ...
Halaman 13
... whole male adult popula- tion of the state , citizens of the United States , had voted for the People's Constitution , in December , 1841 , and that under the constitution he had been elected Governor . He offered to produce the ballots ...
... whole male adult popula- tion of the state , citizens of the United States , had voted for the People's Constitution , in December , 1841 , and that under the constitution he had been elected Governor . He offered to produce the ballots ...
Halaman 18
... whole ground upon which it was competent to examine him . To go farther than this was to invade the right of the juror himself , to question his veracity , and virtually to charge him with perjury . If he had told the truth in his ...
... whole ground upon which it was competent to examine him . To go farther than this was to invade the right of the juror himself , to question his veracity , and virtually to charge him with perjury . If he had told the truth in his ...
Halaman 27
... whole scene . Dorr did not make any explanation as to the use of the five thousand upon the in- terference of Tyler . His name was not mentioned . Did not de- rive the story of the sword from a newspaper . Have not said that I came here ...
... whole scene . Dorr did not make any explanation as to the use of the five thousand upon the in- terference of Tyler . His name was not mentioned . Did not de- rive the story of the sword from a newspaper . Have not said that I came here ...
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Halaman 763 - • My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury in the highest degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree ; All several sins, all used in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all—Guilty! Guilty!
Halaman 369 - Ladies, or fair ladies, I would wish you, or I would request you, or I would entreat you, not to fear, not to tremble: my life for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity, of my life;
Halaman 155 - shall consist only in levying war against the same, or in adhering to the enemies thereof, giving them aid and comfort. This, law, we now say to you, is constitutional and binding on all, and that the sovereign authority of this State is such, that treason can be committed against it.
Halaman 562 - endeavors by violence, or surprise, to commit a known felony, such as murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and the like, upon either. In these cases he is not obliged to retreat, but may pursue his adversary until he has secured himself from all danger; and if he kill him in so doing, it is called justifiable
Halaman 662 - circumstances of accident, necessity, or infirmity, are to be satisfactorily proved by the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence produced against him, for the law presumeth the fact to have been founded in malice, until the contrary appeareth. And very right it is, that the law should so presume: The defendant in this instance standeth
Halaman vii - There speech and thought and nature failed a little And he lay tranced; but when he rose and paced Back toward his solitary home again, All down the long and narrow street he went, Beating it in upon his weary brain, As tho
Halaman 551 - a little below the left pap of him the said Charles Austin, one mortal wound, of the depth of six inches, and of the breadth of one inch, of which mortal wound aforesaid the said Charles Austin then and there instantly died; and so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say, that he the said Thomas Oliver Selfridge, the said Charles Austin,
Halaman 749 - The triumphs that on vice attend, Shall ever in confusion end; The good man suffers but to gain, And every virtue springs from pain. As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow, But crushed or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Halaman viii - It costs money," said Bounderby, "a mint of money. You'd have to go to Doctors Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a Court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act
Halaman 552 - justifies a woman, killing one who attempts to ravish her: and so too the husband or father may justify killing a man, who attempts a rape upon his wife or daughter; but not if he takes them in adultery by consent, for the one is forcible and felonious, but not