 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 544 pages
...to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel for the respondent have stremiousiy urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case of... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 514 pages
...to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel fpr the respondent have strenuously urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case of... | |
 | Andrew McKinley, John Dow - Treason - 1818 - 568 pages
...to be in fevour of the prisoner. Where there is any doubt, it operates in favour of the pannel. He is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; and that presumption operates upon every doubtful case. IndubiisberrigniorapreeIerendamml. And this... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...our country ; and so great is the benignity of the laws, that the accused in our Courts of Justice is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. Imagine then the pungency of my regret when I found myself condemned without evidence, and debarred... | |
 | Trials - 1826 - 810 pages
...rules, to be in favour of the prisoner. Where there is any doubt, it operates in favour of the panel. He is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; and that presumption operates upon every doubtful case. In iiubtis benigiuora praferenda unit. And... | |
 | North Ludlow Beamish - 1829 - 234 pages
...have made should induce you to forget that ancient and wholcs >me maxim of our law, that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. At tht same time, I have no hesitation in repeating that if my statement is borne out by the evidence,... | |
 | the brithish and foreign lmedical review - 1845 - 594 pages
...carefully kept out of the way,) so long you are to bow down and worship it. By the English law, every man is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty. In Dr. Wigan's code of logic, everything is true, which has not been proved to be false. Now we shall... | |
 | William Forsyth - Law - 1849 - 528 pages
...COUNSEL. 359 rebuke to the attorney-general, who forgot the humane maxim of the law, that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty, make us warmly sympathize with him. And yet the judges who sat upon his trial, Lord Commissioner Keble,... | |
 | Crime - 1849 - 610 pages
...point of justice, to defend innocence, as to prosecute guilt ? Every man charged with guilt on trial, is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty. But the government seeks only for the evidence of guilt, presents only one side of a fact, which has.... | |
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All the presumptions of law independent of evidence are in favor of innocence ; and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty. If upon such proof there is reasonable doubt remaining, the accused Is entitled to the benefit of it... 
