Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in England and Ireland, Volume 1Edward William Cox J. Crockford, Law Times Office, 1846 - Criminal law |
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... circumstances for the purpose of deciding whether at that time the prisoner bona fide believed that she had reasonable cause . Threatening to expose a clergyman , who had had criminal intercourse with a woman in a house of ill - fame ...
... circumstances for the purpose of deciding whether at that time the prisoner bona fide believed that she had reasonable cause . Threatening to expose a clergyman , who had had criminal intercourse with a woman in a house of ill - fame ...
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... circumstances was not murder by the common law ; that to constitute murder it was necessary that both parties should be British subjects , or , if the subjects of another country , brought by some circumstances within British protection ...
... circumstances was not murder by the common law ; that to constitute murder it was necessary that both parties should be British subjects , or , if the subjects of another country , brought by some circumstances within British protection ...
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... circumstances of the case , and you will probably , therefore , not attach much weight to light and casual declarations which it may appear to you to have been the interest of the prisoner to make as to such things . It appears that ...
... circumstances of the case , and you will probably , therefore , not attach much weight to light and casual declarations which it may appear to you to have been the interest of the prisoner to make as to such things . It appears that ...
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... circumstance did not , in his opinion , affect the charge against the female prisoner . Her offence consisted , not in the contracting that which , but for the existence of her ... circumstances , is a matter wholly immaterial to the 33.
... circumstance did not , in his opinion , affect the charge against the female prisoner . Her offence consisted , not in the contracting that which , but for the existence of her ... circumstances , is a matter wholly immaterial to the 33.
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Edward William Cox. other circumstances , is a matter wholly immaterial to the inquiry . If it were other- wise in this case , the same argument would apply in all other cases ; for ... circumstances, is a matter wholly immaterial to the ...
Edward William Cox. other circumstances , is a matter wholly immaterial to the inquiry . If it were other- wise in this case , the same argument would apply in all other cases ; for ... circumstances, is a matter wholly immaterial to the ...
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Page 153 - Eyre to be this, — that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced, by the most powerful considerations, to speak the truth.
Page 128 - EF then and there feloniously, wilfully and of his malice aforethought, did strike and...
Page 232 - ... on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court, or before any judge, jury, sheriff, coroner, magistrate, officer, or person having, by law or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence...
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Page 232 - ... but that every person so offered may and shall be admitted to give evidence on oath, or solemn affirmation, in those cases wherein affirmation is by law receivable; notwithstanding that such person may or shall have an interest in the matter in question, or in the event of the trial of any issue, matter, question, or...
Page 129 - The charge must contain such a description of the crime, that the defendant may know what crime it is which he is called upon to answer ; that the jury may appear to be warranted in their conclusion of ' guilty' or ' not
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Page 543 - indictment for conspiracy ought to show, either that it was for an unlawful " purpose, or to effect a lawful purpose by unlawful means: that it is not done
Page 153 - The general principle on which this species of evidence is admitted, is that they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone ; when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth : a situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath administered in a court of justice.