| 1839 - 776 pages
...greeting the news that he would die on Monday. The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. He had resumed his listening attitude, and looked intently at his questioner •while the demand was made,... | |
| Charles Dickens - Criminals - 1838 - 1024 pages
...greeting the news that he would die on Monday. The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. He had resumed his listening attitude, and looked intently at his questioner while the demand was made,... | |
| Statesmen - 1838 - 434 pages
...lives, if 1 had them, well ipeut in sucb ice." he was called upon to answer, " whether he had any thing to say, why sentence of death should not be passed upon him." Vane rose upon this, " with an airwhich sufficiently indicated that he not only had something, but... | |
| 1839 - 648 pages
...ensued—not a rustle—not a breath.—Guilty. " The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. He had resumed his listening attitude, and looked intently at his questioner while the demand was made,... | |
| Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 436 pages
...public virtue. After the usual formalities, he was called upon to answer, " whether he had any thing to say, why sentence of death should not be passed upon him." The judges, without doubt, supposed that he would probably make a solemn appeal, and protest, with... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 630 pages
...subsided, and he was aked if he had anything points against him were stated with terrible distinctness, to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, looked towards hiť counsel in mute appeal that he would He had resumed his listening and looked intently... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1843 - 452 pages
...greeting the news that he would die on Monday. The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. He bad resumed his listening attitude, and looked intently at his questioner while the demand was made... | |
| Moses Aaron Richardson - Ballads, English - 1844 - 436 pages
...GUILTY. The judge then placed the black cap on his head, and on the prisoner being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he simply replied — " I am innocent of the crime." His lordship then addressed the prisoner, and afterwards... | |
| George Payne R. James - 1844 - 956 pages
...evidence against him, and he likewise was pronounced guilty of high treason. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he replied at first, " Nothing !" but then added " Non eadem omnibus decora. The House of the Wiltons... | |
| 1844 - 406 pages
...his unfeeling reply. Mr. James was now brought up to receive judgment, and being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, gave utterance to the words of Jeremiah (Jer. xxvi. 14, 15). The judge silenced him a second time,... | |
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