 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...  The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer - Stran 4avtor: Richard Burn - 1820Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Florida. Supreme Court - 1861 - 596 strani
...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...prosecution for this crime that had come within his own knowledge, and concludes: "I mention these instances that we may be the more cautious upon trials... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1861 - 694 strani
...female by force and against her will. " It is an accusation," Bays Sir Matthew Hale, " easy to be made, hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party accused, although innocent." Metzgcr only allows of three cases in which the crime can be consummated : " When... | |
 | John H. Colby - 1868 - 806 strani
...therefore, ought to be severely and impartially punished with death; but, it must be remembered, that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to...malicious prosecution for this crime that had come to his knowledge, and among them one case where, although the rape was fully sworn, it turned out,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1874 - 768 strani
...Judge than those of that great and good man, Lord HALE, when he said, " It must be remembered that rape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...party accused, though never so innocent." He, then, after mentioning two remarkable cases of malicious prosecution for this crime which came within his... | |
 | Canada, Sir Henri Elzéar Taschereau - 1874 - 844 strani
...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...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. — 1 Hale 634. Upon an indictment under the first part of this section the jury may find the prisoner... | |
 | Canada - 1874 - 1416 strani
...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...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. — 1 Hale 634. Upon an indictment under the first part of this section the jury may find the prisoner... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1917 - 772 strani
...courts and text-writers, are apropos to this class of cases, namely, that "it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent, ' ' and that we should ' ' be the more cautious upon trials of offenses of this nature, wherein the... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1883 - 942 strani
...and impartially to be punished with death ; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent;" and he then proceeds to state several singular cases which came under his own judicial observation,... | |
 | 1917 - 1232 strani
...detestable crime, and therefore severely to be punished, with death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to...the party accused, though never so innocent.' " He mentions some instances, and comments on them, and continues: "I only mention these instances that... | |
 | 1886 - 1052 strani
...detestable crime, and therefore severely to be punished, with death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to...accused, though never so innocent." He then mentions some unfounded and malicious prosecutions for rape, among them a case tried before himself, where the... | |
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