 | John H. Schively - 1909 - 872 pages
...impeachment would not lie for any but an indictable offense, but after exhaustive argument on both sides this defense was practically abandoned. The cases,...to establish that impeachment is not a mere mode of precedure for the punishment of indictable crimes; that the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" is... | |
 | New York (State) - 1913 - 1032 pages
...impeachment would not lie for any but an indictable offense; but after exhaustive argument on both sides this defense was practically abandoned. The cases,...crimes and misdemeanors ' is to be taken, not in its common law, but in its broader parliamentary sense, and is to be interpreted in the light of parliamentary... | |
 | William Sulzer - Impeachment - 1913 - 958 pages
...impeachment would not lie for any but an indictable offense; but after exhaustive argument on both sides this defense was practically abandoned. The cases,...crimes and misdemeanors ' is to be taken, not in its common law, but in its broader parliamentary sense, and is to be interpreted in the light of parliamentary... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1916 - 1066 pages
...impeachment would not lie for any but an indictable offense, but after exhaustive arguments on both sides D Y w\ \>c interpreted in the light of parliamentary usage; that in this sense it includes not only crimes... | |
 | Judges - 1970 - 342 pages
...State and of sufficient dignity to maintain the independence and reputation of worthy public officers. The cases, then, seem to establish that impeachment...the punishment of indictable crimes; that the phrase of "high crimes and misdemeanors'' is to be taken not in its common-law but in its broader parliamentary... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Impeachments - 1973 - 744 pages
...State and of sufficient dignity to maintain the independence and reputation of worthy public officers. The cases, then, seem to establish that impeachment...punishment of indictable crimes ; that the phrase of "high crimes and misdemeanors" is to be taken not in its common-law but in its broader parliamentary... | |
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The impeachability of the offenses charged in the articles was in most of the cases not denied. In one case, however, counsel for the defendant insisted that impeachment would not lie for any but an indictable offense; but after exhaustive argument on... 