 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1340 pages
...severely and impartially to be punished with death, but it must he remembered, that it is an accusation easy to be made, hard to be proved, but harder to be disproved by the party accused, though innocent.' "Was a rape committed '.' If you are not fully satisfied... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1200 pages
...impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered that It is an accusation easy to make, hard to be proved, but harder to be defended by the party accused, though innocent.' " Seo, also, Whart. Crim. Ev. §| 302, 300, 308, and the case of Bush v. Com., 80 Ky. 244, in which... | |
 | Edward Warren Hines, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Cleland Wells, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1026 pages
...it must be remembered that it is an accusation easy to make; hard to be WHITE V. COMMONWEALTH. 423 proved, but harder to be defended by the party accused, though innocent." Also Wharton's Criminal Evidence, sections 362. 366 and 368, and the case of Bush v. Commonwealth,... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...an infant, under years of discretion. The charge of rape, said Hale, is an accusation easy to make, hard to be proved, but harder to be defended by the party accused, though innocent. 4. Crime against Nature, This unnatural crime may be committed with either man or beast. It ought to... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1908 - 772 pages
...impartially to be punished L ° with death ; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easy to bo made, hard to be proved, but harder to be defended...extraordinary cases of malicious prosecution for this crime that had happened within his own observation, and concludes thus: — "I mention these instances... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1910 - 460 pages
...impartially to be punished with death ; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easy to make, hard to be proved, but harder to be defended by the party accused, though innocent." (1 Hale PC 635.) He then mentioned two extraordinary cases that occurred in his own observation, of... | |
 | United States. War Department - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1916 - 458 pages
...true that rape is a most detestable crime * * * ; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easy to be made, hard to be proved, but harder to...be defended by the party accused, though innocent." PROOF. (a) That the accused had carnal knowledge of a certain female, as alleged ; (b) That the act... | |
 | William Blackstone - English law - 1916 - 1380 pages
...severely and impartially to be punished with death ; but it must be remembered that it is an aeeusation easy to be made, hard to be proved, but harder to be defended by the party aeeused, though innocent." He then relates two very extraordinary eases of malieious proseeution for... | |
 | Seymour Frederick Harris - Criminal law - 1919 - 596 pages
...for this crime the words of Sir Matthew Hale are recalled : " It is an accusation easy to be made and hard to be proved, but harder to be defended by the party accused, though innocent." It will be necessary to estimate the degree of credibility of the testimony of the woman who makes... | |
 | United States. War Department - Courts-martial (and courts of inquiry) - 1920 - 856 pages
...detestable crime * * * ; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easy to be made, hard to lie proved, but harder to be defended by the party accused, though innocent." 412 P900T. (a) That the accused had carnal knowledge of a certain female, as alleged ; (6) That the... | |
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It is true," says this learned judge (j), "that rape is a [*215] most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death ; but it must be remembered, that it is an accusation easy to be made, hard to be proved, but... 
