A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 33Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1826 - Trials |
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... Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh against ALEXANDER M'LAREN and THOMAS BAIRD , for Sedition , A. D. 1817 ..... Page 1 699. Proceedings in the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh , on two successive Indictments , raised by his Majesty's ...
... Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh against ALEXANDER M'LAREN and THOMAS BAIRD , for Sedition , A. D. 1817 ..... Page 1 699. Proceedings in the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh , on two successive Indictments , raised by his Majesty's ...
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... Court with all the attention it deserves . Lord Advocate . - It only remains for me now to crave the judgment of the Court . Lord Justice Clerk . - Have the counsel for the prisoners any thing to say on this verdict ? Mr. Jeffrey . - In ...
... Court with all the attention it deserves . Lord Advocate . - It only remains for me now to crave the judgment of the Court . Lord Justice Clerk . - Have the counsel for the prisoners any thing to say on this verdict ? Mr. Jeffrey . - In ...
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... Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh. reset of theft , the jury found the panel guilty | of the crime libelled . I pleaded that the verdict was void , as being uncertain , at least that the mitior poena should be inflicted . Lord Justice ...
... Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh. reset of theft , the jury found the panel guilty | of the crime libelled . I pleaded that the verdict was void , as being uncertain , at least that the mitior poena should be inflicted . Lord Justice ...
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... Court has found it necessary to award against you . I say , I do it with sincere regret , when I reflect on the strong testimony that was borne to your former good characters . I lament that you had permitted yourselves to be misled on ...
... Court has found it necessary to award against you . I say , I do it with sincere regret , when I reflect on the strong testimony that was borne to your former good characters . I lament that you had permitted yourselves to be misled on ...
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... Court and jury must con- sider the terms of the oath and nothing else . It has to - day been noticed more than once , that besides the act of parliament libelled on , there is another act relating to unlawful oaths . But when you attend ...
... Court and jury must con- sider the terms of the oath and nothing else . It has to - day been noticed more than once , that besides the act of parliament libelled on , there is another act relating to unlawful oaths . But when you attend ...
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