American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials which Have Taken Place in the United States, from the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day : with Notes and Annotations

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John Davison Lawson
Thomas Law Books, 1914 - Crime

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Page 763 - • My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury in the highest degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree ; All several sins, all used in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all—Guilty! Guilty!
Page 369 - Ladies, or fair ladies, I would wish you, or I would request you, or I would entreat you, not to fear, not to tremble: my life for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity, of my life;
Page 155 - shall consist only in levying war against the same, or in adhering to the enemies thereof, giving them aid and comfort. This, law, we now say to you, is constitutional and binding on all, and that the sovereign authority of this State is such, that treason can be committed against it.
Page 562 - endeavors by violence, or surprise, to commit a known felony, such as murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and the like, upon either. In these cases he is not obliged to retreat, but may pursue his adversary until he has secured himself from all danger; and if he kill him in so doing, it is called justifiable
Page 662 - circumstances of accident, necessity, or infirmity, are to be satisfactorily proved by the prisoner, unless they arise out of the evidence produced against him, for the law presumeth the fact to have been founded in malice, until the contrary appeareth. And very right it is, that the law should so presume: The defendant in this instance standeth
Page vii - There speech and thought and nature failed a little And he lay tranced; but when he rose and paced Back toward his solitary home again, All down the long and narrow street he went, Beating it in upon his weary brain, As tho
Page 551 - a little below the left pap of him the said Charles Austin, one mortal wound, of the depth of six inches, and of the breadth of one inch, of which mortal wound aforesaid the said Charles Austin then and there instantly died; and so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say, that he the said Thomas Oliver Selfridge, the said Charles Austin,
Page 749 - The triumphs that on vice attend, Shall ever in confusion end; The good man suffers but to gain, And every virtue springs from pain. As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow, But crushed or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Page viii - It costs money," said Bounderby, "a mint of money. You'd have to go to Doctors Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a Court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act
Page 552 - justifies a woman, killing one who attempts to ravish her: and so too the husband or father may justify killing a man, who attempts a rape upon his wife or daughter; but not if he takes them in adultery by consent, for the one is forcible and felonious, but not

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