 It is true that rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party...  Canadian Criminal Cases Annotated - Stran 2851905Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Glasse - 1788 - 692 strani
...impartially to be punifhed *36with death ; but it mud be remembered, that it is an accufation eafily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accofed, tho' never fo innocent: therefore, a wife jury will be cautious upon trials of offences of... | |
 | Matthew Hale, Sir Matthew Hale - 1800 - 686 strani
...impartially to be punifhed with death ; but it muft be remembered, that it is an accufation eafily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accufed, tho never fo innocent. . 541* liban I (hall never forget a trial befóte myfelf of a rape... | |
 | John M'Arthur - 1805 - 494 strani
...rape may be applied to the other more deteftable offence, that it is an accufation eafily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accufed though ever fo innocent *. If the party, as laid down by Lord Hale, on whom the .offence of... | |
 | Edward Hyde East - 1806 - 556 strani
...and impartially to be punished with death: but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be proved; and harder to be defended by the party accused, though ever so innocent. And there- i Hale, 633. fore, says he, though the party ravished be in law a com-4Blac.Com.213.... | |
 | William Waller Hening - 1810 - 710 strani
...impartially to be punished with death ; but it must be remembered, that it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. Therefore a wise jury will be cautious upon trials of offences of this nature, that they be not so... | |
 | Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - 1811 - 662 strani
...ought impartially to be punished with death j but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though ever so innocent." " And therefore," says he, " though the party injured be in law a competent witness,... | |
 | Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - 1811 - 652 strani
...ought impartially to be punished with death ; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, thong!] ever so innocent." " And therefore," says he, " though the party injured be in law a competent... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1819 - 542 strani
...which it will always be safe to observe. Lord Hale lays down that this accusation is easily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence; and he adduces some striking instances within his own knowledge where... | |
 | Edward Christian - 1820 - 148 strani
...impartially to be punished with death ; but it must be remembered, that it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be...trial before myself of a rape in the County of Sussex. " There * 7 Will. III. c. 3. " There had been one of that county convicted and executed for a rape... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1820 - 758 strani
...severely and impartially to be punished with death : but it must be remembered, it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." He then mentions two remarkable cases of malicious prosecution for this crime, that had come within... | |
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