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 12Thomas Bayly Howell T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 - Trials |
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... jury . Their lordships then severally delivered their opinions . - Lord Henderland . My lords ; I am ex- tremely sorry to see three young men , indus- triously brought up to a useful profession , placed at your lordships bar as panels ...
... jury . Their lordships then severally delivered their opinions . - Lord Henderland . My lords ; I am ex- tremely sorry to see three young men , indus- triously brought up to a useful profession , placed at your lordships bar as panels ...
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... jury can find any ground consistent with their oath , and with their duty to their country , upon which the panels may be acquitted . In the mean time it is mine to say , that the above defences hinted at by the panels ' counsel , ought ...
... jury can find any ground consistent with their oath , and with their duty to their country , upon which the panels may be acquitted . In the mean time it is mine to say , that the above defences hinted at by the panels ' counsel , ought ...
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... jury had found us guilty ; yet we , trusting to the mercy of the Court , stood forward ac- cordingly . Addressed , -The Right Hon . the Lord Jus- tice Clerk . After the letter was read , their lordships proceeded to deliver their ...
... jury had found us guilty ; yet we , trusting to the mercy of the Court , stood forward ac- cordingly . Addressed , -The Right Hon . the Lord Jus- tice Clerk . After the letter was read , their lordships proceeded to deliver their ...
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... jury , it would be evident to the Court , that no punishment could be inflicted upon the panels , but that they were well entitled to expect a judgment dismissing them simpliciter from the bar . The criminal letters set forth in the ...
... jury , it would be evident to the Court , that no punishment could be inflicted upon the panels , but that they were well entitled to expect a judgment dismissing them simpliciter from the bar . The criminal letters set forth in the ...
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... jury must be taken , as the jury have given sages inserted in the libel , there might perhaps it ; and that it must be in vain either for a have been some colour ( although a narrow public prosecutor to allege that it means one ) for ...
... jury must be taken , as the jury have given sages inserted in the libel , there might perhaps it ; and that it must be in vain either for a have been some colour ( although a narrow public prosecutor to allege that it means one ) for ...
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