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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... suppose so . Who more ? -John Ken- nedy . That is two . Any more ? -Archibald Craig . That is three . Who else was there ? -I do not recollect any . may state the import of them in the address to the jury ; but they cannot be put in ...
... suppose so . Who more ? -John Ken- nedy . That is two . Any more ? -Archibald Craig . That is three . Who else was there ? -I do not recollect any . may state the import of them in the address to the jury ; but they cannot be put in ...
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... Suppose no words to have been uttered but what would , in other circumstances , have been considered seditious , their having had a right object in view is a good defence . But every sort of obloquy has been thrown on the petiti- oners ...
... Suppose no words to have been uttered but what would , in other circumstances , have been considered seditious , their having had a right object in view is a good defence . But every sort of obloquy has been thrown on the petiti- oners ...
Page 157
... suppose the party to swear , that he objects shall have been obtained ; that he will use his best endeavours to continue and perpetuate these imaginary blessings , when they shall once have been procured for the country . Is this an ...
... suppose the party to swear , that he objects shall have been obtained ; that he will use his best endeavours to continue and perpetuate these imaginary blessings , when they shall once have been procured for the country . Is this an ...
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... Suppose that the House of Lords ( which of course they never will do ) should pass a bill to abolish the House of Commons , or their own House , as a branch of the Legisla- ture ( and if such bill passed into a law , it would effect the ...
... Suppose that the House of Lords ( which of course they never will do ) should pass a bill to abolish the House of Commons , or their own House , as a branch of the Legisla- ture ( and if such bill passed into a law , it would effect the ...
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... Suppose a panel has pleaded to an indictment , and has been actually put upon his trial here , if the objection which I am now stating is not a good objection , his Majesty's Advocate might raise another indictment , requiring him to ...
... Suppose a panel has pleaded to an indictment , and has been actually put upon his trial here , if the objection which I am now stating is not a good objection , his Majesty's Advocate might raise another indictment , requiring him to ...
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Page 679 - ... and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the Wild asses ; they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of Heaven, till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it Whomsoever he will.
Page 301 - Realm or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise or intend Death or Destruction, or any bodily harm tending to Death or Destruction, Maim or Wounding, Imprisonment or Restraint...
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