 I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 1921818Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Leach - 1815 - 578 pagina’s
...and was then alive. He cited the passage in 2 Hale, PC 290, where his Lordship says, " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead" and he mentioned a remarkable case which had happened before MR. JUSTICE GOULD. The case was this.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pagina’s
...readers. ' 1 would never (says Sir Matthew Hale) convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless tlir fact were proved to be done, or at least the body...uncle, (who was also her heir at law,) was overheard to •ay, ' Good uncle, do not kill me !' Very soon afterwards, the child disappeared; and the uncle,... | |
 | Edward Christian - 1820 - 148 pagina’s
...has related some such cases which had existed jn his time: and he observes upon them, " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless...least the body found dead, for the sake of two cases" which he relates, where the prisoner in each was found guilty and executed, arid the person charged... | |
 | William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pagina’s
...(411) 2 Hale, 2DO. Where Lord Hale said, " I would never convict any person of murder or nuaalauglUer, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found, for the sake of two cases ; one mentioned in my Lord Coke's PC Ml, 1>. 232, a II a, ,i/,i. .:•,,:•... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1826 - 780 pagina’s
...deceased has been found : and a very great Judge says, " I would never convict any person of mur" der or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or " at least the body be found dead." (A) But this rule, it seems, must be taken with some qualifications ; and circumstances... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1828 - 836 pagina’s
...Gordon's case, 1 Leach 515. SC 1 East. 312, 315. (<) By Buller, J., in Berrymaji t. Wise, 4 TR 366. murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead.(w) SECTION II. The best possible Evidence must be produced. It is a general rule that you must... | |
 | 1830 - 430 pagina’s
...these. " I would never "convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless the fact were proved to b« "done or at least the body found dead, for the sake of two cases, one mentioned by "my Lord Coke which was a Warwickshire case." Gentlemen, I will trespass on yonr time... | |
 | William Hough - 1834 - 398 pagina’s
...was afterwards discovered alive. State Trialt, vol. 14. 1312. Sir Matthew Hale says, "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless...were proved to be done, or at least the body found." Starlie, vol. ip 33. If a bodv be thrown overboard, it may not be found. 330 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th.... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 908 pagina’s
...unless (here was due proof made that a felony was committed of these goods." And again, " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless...proved to be done, or at least, the body found dead." 2 Hale, 290. So it is said by Sir William Blackslonc, 4 Comm. 359. that all presumptive evidence of... | |
 | 1843 - 604 pagina’s
...innocence or safety of any individual. " I would never," observes the eminent lawyer last quoted, " convict any person of murder, or manslaughter, unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." Burnet, one of the greatest of our Scold) criminal law authorities, lays it down as " a leading and... | |
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