| 1823 - 946 strani
...such party accused to a verdict of acquittal : And it wns, he believed, also admitted, that it was better that ten guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should be condemned. Applying these observations to his own case, he argued, that if only one of them should... | |
| 1823 - 944 strani
...such party accused to a verdict of acquittal : And it wfis, he believed, also admitted, that it was better that ten guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should be condemned. Applying these observations to his own case, he argued, that if only one of them should... | |
| Walter Scott - 1823 - 944 strani
...such party accused to a verdict of acquittal : And it was, he believed, also admitted, that it was better that ten guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should be condemned. Applying these observations to his own case, he argued, that if only one of them should... | |
| 1834 - 522 strani
...order to prevent the escape of the guilty. It is belter, according to the established maxim of law, that ten guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should be punished. In this view of the subject we confess we coincide. If it be wrong for a creditor to imprison... | |
| 1836 - 564 strani
...on the.nature and application of circumstantial evidence.] He then observed— If, gentlemen, it is' better that ten guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should suffer, agreeable to the long established and well settled maxim, in the history of criminal jurisprudence... | |
| Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1836 - 818 strani
...extension, I should say it was the illogical application in practice of the maxim, " that it is better ten guilty men " should escape than that one innocent man " should suffer." It is no doubt better that ten guilty men should escape the punishment of death, and all the eternal... | |
| Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1839 - 240 strani
...-extension, I should say it was the illogical application in practice of the maxim, " that it is better ten guilty men should escape, than " that one innocent man should suffer." It is no doubt better that ten guilty men should escape the punishment of death, and all the eternal... | |
| 1844 - 292 strani
...anti-repealers, and Protestants, and bringing into jeopardy also that wise maxim of the English law, that it is better that ten guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should suffer. It did more. It was doing great injustice to the present jury. This proceeding was not only an insult... | |
| John Appleton - 1860 - 298 strani
...less because the witness voluntarily admits his guilt. The law, in a spirit of mercy, says, that it is better that ten guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. How important, then, would the rejection of this evidence be deemed by the exclusionist, were he consistent... | |
| Henry Thomas Riley - 1866 - 572 strani
...bad for the sake of the good, than to injure the good for the bad." Hence the legal maxim, that it is better that ten guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should suffer. Satius est recurrtre, quam currtre male. Prov. — " It is better to run back than to run the wrong... | |
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