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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... jurors , both grand and petit , but never was before conceived to be objectionable . Nor was it ever before supposed to be a prejudication of any man's case , who might afterwards be tried for an offence thus defined . Judge Chase ...
... jurors , both grand and petit , but never was before conceived to be objectionable . Nor was it ever before supposed to be a prejudication of any man's case , who might afterwards be tried for an offence thus defined . Judge Chase ...
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... jurors and of the country . Whereas judge Chase gave his opinion privately to the counsel , to be at their disposal and discretion ; to use it for the benefit of their client if they could ; or to disre- gard and suppress it if they ...
... jurors and of the country . Whereas judge Chase gave his opinion privately to the counsel , to be at their disposal and discretion ; to use it for the benefit of their client if they could ; or to disre- gard and suppress it if they ...
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... jurors and from the world , if the counsel of Fries had not themselves made it public . This practice of delivering opinions on points of law in charges to grand juries , is not confined to the English courts . It is the same in the ...
... jurors and from the world , if the counsel of Fries had not themselves made it public . This practice of delivering opinions on points of law in charges to grand juries , is not confined to the English courts . It is the same in the ...
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... jurors by reciting these tales of tyranny and blood , as would create a general prejudice in them against all the laws of treason . The abhorrence which would be honestly given to such extraordinary cases of cruelty practised under the ...
... jurors by reciting these tales of tyranny and blood , as would create a general prejudice in them against all the laws of treason . The abhorrence which would be honestly given to such extraordinary cases of cruelty practised under the ...
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... jurors were brought to the book , a ques- tion arose which forms the foundation of the charge contained in the second article . I will in the first place read the article ; then state the law and the fact in the case referred to ; and ...
... jurors were brought to the book , a ques- tion arose which forms the foundation of the charge contained in the second article . I will in the first place read the article ; then state the law and the fact in the case referred to ; and ...
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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.