Criminal Law Reports: Being Reports of Cases Determined in the Federal and State Courts of the United States, and in the Courts of England, Ireland, Canada, Etc, Volume 2Hurd and Houghton, 1879 - Criminal law |
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... alleged is a false pretence within the statute . The indictment alleged three false representations : First , that the prisoner falsely pretended that he then had money to a certain amount in the bank ; secondly , that he then had ...
... alleged is a false pretence within the statute . The indictment alleged three false representations : First , that the prisoner falsely pretended that he then had money to a certain amount in the bank ; secondly , that he then had ...
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... alleged claim of right , as misdemeanor at common law , to be treated and dealt with as a riot where the parties proceed to do an act lawful in itself in a violent and turbulent manner , to the terror of the people . If , on the other ...
... alleged claim of right , as misdemeanor at common law , to be treated and dealt with as a riot where the parties proceed to do an act lawful in itself in a violent and turbulent manner , to the terror of the people . If , on the other ...
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... alleged , did unlawfully , knowingly , and feloniously embezzle and convert the same to his own use . Such conversion is alleged in the first count , on the 1st of May , 1862 , in the second on the 6th of July , in the third on the 16th ...
... alleged , did unlawfully , knowingly , and feloniously embezzle and convert the same to his own use . Such conversion is alleged in the first count , on the 1st of May , 1862 , in the second on the 6th of July , in the third on the 16th ...
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... alleged in the indictment , or the indictment will be bad , and may be quashed on motion , or the judgment may be arrested , or be reversed on error . Arch . Cr . Plea . 15th ed . 54 . Text writers and courts of justice have sometimes ...
... alleged in the indictment , or the indictment will be bad , and may be quashed on motion , or the judgment may be arrested , or be reversed on error . Arch . Cr . Plea . 15th ed . 54 . Text writers and courts of justice have sometimes ...
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... allegations , because another act of Congress provides that no person shall be prosecuted , tried , or convicted of the ... alleged in each of the counts to which the demurrer applies , it is difficult to see upon what ground it can be ...
... allegations , because another act of Congress provides that no person shall be prosecuted , tried , or convicted of the ... alleged in each of the counts to which the demurrer applies , it is difficult to see upon what ground it can be ...
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Page 54 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 399 - It is not a mere possible doubt; because everything relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Page 183 - ... committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found within the territories of the other : provided, that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension...
Page 183 - Ireland are determined that, so far as may be in their power, it shall be effectually abolished; and whereas it is found expedient, for the better administration of justice and the prevention of crime within the territories and jurisdiction of the two parties respectively, that persons committing the crimes hereinafter enumerated, and being fugitives from justice, should, under certain circumstances, be reciprocally delivered up...
Page 442 - ... to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 134 - ... the trial of crimes committed on the high seas, or in any place out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, shall be in the district where the offender is apprehended, or into which he may first be brought.
Page 423 - The rule of the common law, that penal statutes are to be strictly construed, has no application to this code. All its provisions are to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice.
Page 702 - After hearing the appeal, the court must give judgment without regard to technical errors or defects, or to exceptions, which do not affect the substantial rights of the parties.
Page 342 - Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the Judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses; and such writings, and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and jury as evidence of the genuineness, or otherwise, of the writing in dispute.
Page 116 - And that either of the justices of the Supreme Court, as well as judges of the District Courts, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus, for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of commitment.