 | Crime - 1836 - 564 pages
...each and all of you guilty of a jinost foul and aggravated murder. Have you or cither of you any fhing to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against you, in pursuance of your conviction for this offence 1 The feelings and emotions with which I enter... | |
 | Fashion - 468 pages
..." Guilty," his cheek did not blanch nor his limbs tremble. He was called upon to declare if he had anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be passed. He simply declared, with much brevity, and in the same collected manner which had characterized... | |
 | Linus Wilson Miller - Canada - 1846 - 400 pages
...other twelve, who were tried as subjects of the crown. They were separately asked if they had any thing to say, why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against them. In the case of Mr. Wait, his counsel moved that the verdict be set aside, on the ground that... | |
 | William Henry Seward - Insanity - 1846 - 64 pages
...declare him guilty. When the Judge shall proceed to the last fatal cereinony, and demand what he has to say why the Sentence of the Law should not be pronounced upon him, although there should not be an unmoistened eye in this vast assembly, and the stern voice... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...affirmatively that, before sentence was pronounced, the prisoner had been asked if he had any thing to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against him. It had been previously declared this was not an error in the record — that unless the contrary was... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 806 pages
...v. The State, 39 Ala. 684. In the present case the record istates that the prisoner " said nothing" why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against him ; leaving the inference irresistible that he was asked if he had anything to say why this should not... | |
 | William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - Insanity (Law) - 1848 - 510 pages
...declare him guilty. When* the Judge shall proceed to the last fatal ceremony, and demand what he has to say why the Sentence of the Law should not be pronounced upon him, although there should not be an unmoistened eye in this vast assembly, and the stern voice... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...declare him guilty. When the Judge shall proceed to the last fatal ceremony, and demand what he has to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon him, although there should not be an unmoistened eye in this vast assembly, and the stern voice... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - Folk literature, Irish - 1854 - 468 pages
...did not blench, his lips quiver, nor his limbs tremble. He was called upon to declare whether he had anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be passed ? Cussen, drawing himself up to his full height, declared, in a sonorous voice, which filled... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - Alcoholism - 1856 - 354 pages
...drinking— a police сазе growing out of a quarrel over the wine-cup — or a culprit, when asked to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced on him, replying, ' I was drunk when this happened, and know nothing of the matter.' That journeymen... | |
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Judge shall proceed to the last fatal ceremony, and demand what he has to say why the Sentence of the Law should not be pronounced upon him... 
