 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
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1886 - 802 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...accused, though never so innocent." He then mentions several unfounded and malicious prosecutions for rape, among them a case tried before himself, where... | |
 | 1911 - 1146 strani
...instruction that "it was the settled law of this state that rape is an accusation easily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though ever so innoceut," was proper. [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Rape, Dec. Dig. § 59.*] 5. CRIMINAL... | |
 | 1894 - 1156 strani
...of each case. State v. Niles, 47 Vt. 82. Lord Hale said that this accusation Is easily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his Innocence. It is stated In. « all the works upon criminal law that the credibility... | |
 | 1912 - 1298 strani
...the crime of rape has frequently been approved by the courts. He said : "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 PC 635. The statement is peculiarly applicable here, since the complaining witness is white... | |
 | Sir Henri Elzéar Taschereau - 1888 - 1294 strani
...M. and Rob. 512 is now overruled. — Taylor, Evidence, par. 336. 202 OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON. easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. — 1 Hale, 634. Upon an indictment under section 37, the jury may find the prisoner guilty of an attempt... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1888 - 732 strani
...to the evidence for the prosecution in cases of rape : " An accusation easily to be made, and hara to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." 1 Hale, 635. As a general rule, the only point in which a witness's character can be impeached is his... | |
 | Colorado. Court of Appeals - 1892 - 680 strani
...testified to its perpetration. In speaking of the charge of rape, Lord Hale said : " An accusation easily made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused though never so innocent." 1 Hale P. 0. 635. Conviction of the offense is seldom or never allowed upon the unsupported evidence... | |
 | Canada - 1893 - 1192 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, 684. Upon an indictment under section 267, the jury may find the prisoner guilty of an attempt... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1894 - 786 strani
...of each case. State v. Niles, 47 Vt. 82. Lord Hale said that this accusation is easily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence. It is stated in all the works upon criminal law that the credibility... | |
 | Arthur Percival Will - 1896 - 580 strani
...author from whom we have just quoted has said, that " it is an accusation easily to be made, and hardly to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." 2 Such cases, he further observes, are not uncommon, and he has related the particulars of two cases,... | |
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