The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, Volume 8T. Boys, 1826 - Anecdotes |
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... they were agreed on their verdict . Some of them returned for answer , that eleven of their body had been of the same mind from the first , but that it was their misfor- tune to have a foreman , who , having taken 50 PERCY ANECDOTES .
... they were agreed on their verdict . Some of them returned for answer , that eleven of their body had been of the same mind from the first , but that it was their misfor- tune to have a foreman , who , having taken 50 PERCY ANECDOTES .
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... verdict ; and after giving the jury a severe admonition , he re- fused to record the verdict , and sent them back again with directions that they should be locked up all night without fire or candle . The whole blame was publicly laid ...
... verdict ; and after giving the jury a severe admonition , he re- fused to record the verdict , and sent them back again with directions that they should be locked up all night without fire or candle . The whole blame was publicly laid ...
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... verdict , and conjuring his visitor frankly to discover his reasons for acquitting the prisoner . The juryman returned for answer , that he had sufficient reasons to justify his con- duct , and that he was neither ashamed nor afraid to ...
... verdict , and conjuring his visitor frankly to discover his reasons for acquitting the prisoner . The juryman returned for answer , that he had sufficient reasons to justify his con- duct , and that he was neither ashamed nor afraid to ...
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... VERDICT AGAINST EVIDENCE . It has been well observed by a modern writer , that " we are very apt to mistake the foulness of a crime for certainty of evidence against the individual ac- cused of it ; or in proportion as we are impressed ...
... VERDICT AGAINST EVIDENCE . It has been well observed by a modern writer , that " we are very apt to mistake the foulness of a crime for certainty of evidence against the individual ac- cused of it ; or in proportion as we are impressed ...
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... verdict of " Guilty . " The verdict being recorded , the judge requested to know upon what shadow of proof it had been brought . " My lord , " answered the foreman , " a great crime has been committed : somebody ought to suffer for it ...
... verdict of " Guilty . " The verdict being recorded , the judge requested to know upon what shadow of proof it had been brought . " My lord , " answered the foreman , " a great crime has been committed : somebody ought to suffer for it ...
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Page 78 - Certainly, if the common law be so hard to be understood, it is far from being very common ; but if the Lord Coke in his Institutes...
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Page 11 - Roman law, parricide, or the murder of one's parents or children, was punished in a much severer manner than any other kind of homicide. After being scourged, the delinquents were sewed up in a leathern sack, with a live dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and so cast into the sea...
Page 78 - I have broken, you do at once deny me an acknowledged right, and evidence to the whole world your resolution to sacrifice the privileges of Englishmen to your sinister and arbitrary designs.
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Page 58 - Barbarous father, your cruelty in having put it out of my power ever to join my fate to that of the only man I could love, and tyrannically insisting upon my marrying one whom I always hated, has made me form a resolution to put an end to an existence which is become a burden to me.
Page 83 - Shaftesbury had more law than all his judges and more divinity than all his bishops.
Page 55 - A MAN was tried for and convicted of the murder of his own father. The evidence against him was merely circumstantial, and the principal witness was his sister. She proved that her father possessed a small income, which, with his industry, enabled him to live with comfort; that her brother...
Page 114 - The knout whip is fixed to a wooden handle a foot long, and consists of several thongs, about two feet in length, twisted together, to the end of which is fastened a single tough thong of a foot > 3 and a half in length, tapering towards a point, and capable of being changed by the executioner when too much softened by the blood of the criminal.