...counsel for a female prisoner, who was convicted on a capital charge, and on her being asked what she had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon her, he rose and said, " If you please, my lord, we are with child." He was, however, wrong in point...

...counsel for a female prisoner, who was convicted on a capital charge, and on her being asked what she had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon her, he rose and said, " If you please, my lord, ice are with child." He was, however, wrong in point...

...addressing the prisoner, informed him of the verdict of the jury, and asked him if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. With the manner of a man who scarcely knew where he was, and whether all he saw and heard ought not...

...evidence against him, and he likewise was pronounced guilty of high treason. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he replied at first, " Nothing !" but then added, " Non eadem omnibus decora. The house of the Wiltons...

...succeed, which of its is safe?" — At the same assizes, a man convicted of murdering his wife being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, gave a very moving account of his wife's misconduct, and the provocation he had received from her....

...spasm convulsed his features and shook his frame. It passed away ; and his bearing and speech, wlirn asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced according to law, was not without a certain calm dignity and power, while his tones, tremulous,...

...murder of the overseer, after which he was asked, with a sort of mock solemnity, if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. "Go on." said the indignant culprit ; " hang me. kill me, do your will ! I was held a slave for the...

...murder of the overseer, after which he was asked, with a sort of mock solemnity, if lie had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. "Go on," said the indignant culprit; "hang me, kill me, do your will. I was held a slave for the best...

...murder of the overseer, after which he was asked, with a sort of mock solemnity, if he had anything to say why sentence of death, should not be passed upon him. "Go on," said the indignant culprit; "hang me, kill me, do your will. I was held a slave for the best...

...sufficiently recovered to receive the sentence of the Court, and was called upon in the usual form to say " Why Sentence of Death should not be passed upon him according to Law ? " He began by apologising for the interruption he had given to the business of the...