The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 12Walter Scott John Ballantyne and Company, 1823 - Europe |
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Page 159
... jury , to save the criminal , who has been actually prosecuted , but likewise a strong disinclination in the public to prosecute . Many persons in respectable lines of life , who had suffered from depredations of the kind above alluded ...
... jury , to save the criminal , who has been actually prosecuted , but likewise a strong disinclination in the public to prosecute . Many persons in respectable lines of life , who had suffered from depredations of the kind above alluded ...
Page 177
... jury for for- gery ; and although there was not a shadow of doubt as to their guilt , they were acquitted ; two others were next tried by the same jury , for the minor offence , and were brought in guilty . In another case of privately ...
... jury for for- gery ; and although there was not a shadow of doubt as to their guilt , they were acquitted ; two others were next tried by the same jury , for the minor offence , and were brought in guilty . In another case of privately ...
Page 178
... jury was not a matter of slight importance . It was upon the justness of its ver- dict that the whole case depended . He had documents to show that a prisoner in a capital case had double the chance of escape to that of a pri soner ...
... jury was not a matter of slight importance . It was upon the justness of its ver- dict that the whole case depended . He had documents to show that a prisoner in a capital case had double the chance of escape to that of a pri soner ...
Page 185
... jury who would com- ply , would merit attainder . Catholics advanced no fantastical claims , no chimerical pretensions ; they said first , that until Parliament took it away , they had a common law right . Next , that Parliament had no ...
... jury who would com- ply , would merit attainder . Catholics advanced no fantastical claims , no chimerical pretensions ; they said first , that until Parliament took it away , they had a common law right . Next , that Parliament had no ...
Page 201
... jury , and , finally , declared innocent by a petty jury , they should still be liable to a renewal of the charge ; and that they should be deprived of the advantage of that important maxim of the law , which says , That no man is to be ...
... jury , and , finally , declared innocent by a petty jury , they should still be liable to a renewal of the charge ; and that they should be deprived of the advantage of that important maxim of the law , which says , That no man is to be ...
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