| American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...friend than a joke. On one occasion he began the utterance of the sentence of death in this wise: — "Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by a jury of your own countrymen of the crime laid to your charge ; and I must say I entirely agree with the verdict... | |
| Samuel Putnam Avery - American wit and humor - 1854 - 324 pages
...rather slight evidence, before a judge in Hagarstown, Md., proceeded to pass judgment as follows : " Prisoner at the bar ! You have been found guilty by...to the penalty of death. You say you are innocent : the truth of that assertion is only known to yourself and God. It is my duty to leave you for execation.... | |
| Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber - American wit and humor - 1854 - 322 pages
...rather slight evidence, before a judge in Hagarstown, Md., proceeded to pass judgment as follows : " Prisoner at the bar ! You have been found guilty by...countrymen of a crime which subjects you to the penalty I of death. You say you are innocent : the truth of that assertion is only known to yourself and God.... | |
| English literature - 1858 - 592 pages
...assizes would have to make something like the following address at the close of a criminal trial : — ' Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by a jury of your countrymen of a most atrocious murder. I will not now detain you to discuss the probability of their verdict being... | |
| M.P. - 1861 - 352 pages
...Court again. " Do you find the prisoner at the bar Guilty or Not Guilty ?" " Guilty !" Judge. — " Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by a jury of your countrymen, and on evidence which, to me at least, is satisfactory, of this heinous and violent outrage, &c. Your... | |
| L. J. Bigelow - Humor - 1871 - 550 pages
...time rather lose a friend than a joke. On one occasion he began the sentence of death in this wise: " Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by a jury of your own countrymen of the crime laid to your charge, and I must say I entirely agree with the verdict,... | |
| William Morris - Socialism - 1887 - 40 pages
...in a chair before it. [Enter MR. JUSTICE NUPKINS. Usher. Silence !—silence ! Mr. Justice Nupkins. Prisoner at the bar, you have been found guilty by a jury, after a very long and careful consideration of your remarkable and strange case, of a very serious... | |
| Sir Hall Caine - 1894 - 556 pages
...crying out. vni. THE Deemster in the half-lit Court-house was passing sentence. "Prisoner," he said, "you have been found guilty by a jury of your countrymen of one of the cruellest of the crimes of imposture. You have deceived the ignorant, betrayed the unwary,... | |
| Hall Caine - Isle of Man - 1894 - 556 pages
...crying out. VIII. THE Deemster in the half-lit Court-house was passing sentence. "Prisoner," he said, "you have been found guilty by a jury of your countrymen of one of the cruellest of the crimes of imposture. You have deceived the ignorant, betrayed the unwary,... | |
| Hall Caine - 1894 - 568 pages
...crying out. VIH. THE Deemster in the half-lit Court-house was passing sentence. "Prisoner," he said, "you have been found guilty by a jury of your countrymen of one of the cruellest of the crimes of imposture. You have deceived the ignorant, betrayed the unwary,... | |
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