Trial of Samuel Chase: An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Impeached by the House of Representatives, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Before the Senate of the United States, Volume 2S. H. Smith, 1805 - Impeachments |
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... believe , in the ele mentary books of the law , in which it is said that if a judge undertakes of his own authority to change the mode of punishment prescribed by law for any crime , he is indictable ; for instance , should he sentence ...
... believe , in the ele mentary books of the law , in which it is said that if a judge undertakes of his own authority to change the mode of punishment prescribed by law for any crime , he is indictable ; for instance , should he sentence ...
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... believe on being informed that these atrocious outrages upon justice , law and hu- manity were perpetrated five years since - Why and where has the justice of the country slumbered so long ? What now awakens it from this lethargic sleep ...
... believe on being informed that these atrocious outrages upon justice , law and hu- manity were perpetrated five years since - Why and where has the justice of the country slumbered so long ? What now awakens it from this lethargic sleep ...
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... , which however I neither believe nor ad- mit , there was certainly no criminality in the act . There was nothing impure in the motive - nothing injurious in the consequence . Suffer me now , sir , to offer you some 46 .
... , which however I neither believe nor ad- mit , there was certainly no criminality in the act . There was nothing impure in the motive - nothing injurious in the consequence . Suffer me now , sir , to offer you some 46 .
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... believe they or some of them state in decided terms , that none such was made . If this comparison of the recollection of five witnesses against one , who himself testifies to the imperfection of his memory , leaves any doubt about the ...
... believe they or some of them state in decided terms , that none such was made . If this comparison of the recollection of five witnesses against one , who himself testifies to the imperfection of his memory , leaves any doubt about the ...
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... believe that when one person kills another with malice pre- pence , he perpetrates murder ? Is not the intention the git of the offence ? And , yet I can produce authorities to shew that although a juror in a cri- minal case give a ...
... believe that when one person kills another with malice pre- pence , he perpetrates murder ? Is not the intention the git of the offence ? And , yet I can produce authorities to shew that although a juror in a cri- minal case give a ...
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Page 483 - 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.
Page 107 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Page 228 - ... according as the very right of the cause and matter in law shall appear unto them, without regarding any imperfection, omission...
Page 121 - ... the usual mode of process against offenders in such State, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law has cognizance of the offense.
Page 121 - States, to regulate the practice of the said courts respectively, as shall be fit and necessary for the advancement of justice, and especially to that end to prevent delays in proceedings.
Page 134 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors ; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms : though in common usage, the word
Page 111 - The Chief Justice, in answer to the motion of the Attorney General, made yesterday, informs him and the bar, that this court consider the practice of the courts of king's bench, and of chancery, in England, as affording outlines for the practice of this court; and that they will, from time to time, make such alterations therein as circumstances may render necessary.
Page 108 - And upon all arrests in criminal cases, bail shall be admitted, except where the punishment may be death, in which cases it shall not be admitted but by the Supreme or a circuit court, or by a justice of the supreme court, or a judge of a district court, who shall exercise their discretion therein, regarding the nature and circumstances of the offence, and of the evidence, and the usages of law.
Page 233 - And if such commitment of the offender, or the witnesses shall be in a district other than that in which the offence is to be tried, it shall be the duty of the judge of that district where the delinquent is imprisoned, seasonably to issue, and of the marshal of the same district to execute, a warrant for the removal of the offender, and the witnesses or either of them, as the case may be, to the district in- which the trial is to be had.
Page 387 - Judge for any reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground of impeachment, may be removed by the governor on the address of two thirds of each branch of the legislature.