| William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 528 pages
...juftification, excufe, or alleviation, it is incumbent upon the prifoner to make out, to the fatilfadlion of the court and jury : the latter of whom are to decide whether the circumftances alleged are proved to have actually exifted; the former, how far they extend to take... | |
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1806 - 774 pages
...thefe circiimftani.es of juftification, or alleviation, theprifoner muft make out, to the fatisfaction of the court and jury; the latter of whom are to decide whether the circumftances alleged are proved to have exifted ; the former, how far they extend to take away or... | |
| Thomas Oliver Selfridge - Murder - 1807 - 182 pages
...circumstanees of justification, excuse, or alleviation, it is ineumbent upon the prisonar to make out to tbe satisfaction of the Court and Jury, the latter of whom are to decide whether the circumstances alledged are proved to have actually existed ; The former, how far they extend or take away or mitigate... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 774 pages
...thefe circumftances of juftification, or alleviation, the prifoner muft make out, to the fatisfaction of the court and jury ; the latter of whom are to decide whether the circumftances alleged are proved to have exifted , the former, how far they extend to take away or... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...provocation. And all these circumstances of justification, excuse, or alleviation, it is incambent upon the prisoner to make out, to the satisfaction...former, how far they extend to take away or mitigate the guilt. For all homicide is presumed to be malicious, until the contrary appeareth upon evidence.... | |
| Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...sufficiently violent provocation. And all these circumstances of justification, excuse or alleviation, it is incumbent upon the prisoner to make out, to the satisfaction...former, how far they extend to take away or mitigate the guilt For all homicide is presumed to be malicious, until the contrary appeareth upon evidence... | |
| William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pages
...sufficiently violent provocation. And all these circumstances of justification, excuse, or alleviation, it is incumbent upon the prisoner to make out, to the satisfaction...former, how far they extend to take away or mitigate the guilt. For all homicide is presumed to be malicious, until the contrary appeareth upon evidence... | |
| sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...sufficiently violent provocation. And all these circumstances of justification, excuse or alleviation, it is incumbent upon the prisoner to make out, to the satisfaction...former, how far they extend to take away or mitigate the guilt. For all homicide is presumed to be malicious, until the contrary appeareth upon evidence1.... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...sufficiently violent provocation. And all these circumstances of justification, excuse, or alleviation, it is incumbent upon the prisoner to make out, to the satisfaction...former, how far they extend to take away or mitigate the guilt. For all homicide a presumed to be malicious, until the contrary appeareth upon evidence.... | |
| Henry John Stephen - Criminal law - 1834 - 518 pages
...homicide or manslaughter. " And all the circumstances of justification, excuse, or alteration, it is incumbent upon the prisoner to make out to the satisfaction...former, how far they extend to take away or mitigate the guilt. For all homicide is presumed to be malicious until the contrary appeareth upon evidence."... | |
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