 | William Eden Baron Auckland - Capital punishment - 1771 - 326 pages
...Matthew Hale) the " confcience of the jury, that muft pronounce " the prifoner guilty, or not guilty, for to fay " the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe,...he, at his " peril, muft take upon him the guilt or in" noccnce of the prifoner ; unhappy alfo for " the prifoner: for, if the Judge's opinion; " mull... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1772 - 628 pages
...the prifoner guilty or not guilty 5 for, to fay the truth, it were the moA unhappy cafe that coulJ be to the judge, if he at his peril muft take upon...and if the judge's opinion muft rule the matter of Let, the triaj by jury would be ufelcfs." , ' The learned Author of the Commentaries on the Law of... | |
 | R. Griffiths - 1772 - 632 pages
...fays, '' That íhe confcience of the jury muft -pronounce the prifoner guilty or not guilty ; for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that could be to the judge, if he at his peril nuift take upon him the guilt or innocence of the prifoner; and if •the judge's opi-nion muft rule... | |
 | Books - 1772 - 684 pages
...exprefsly fays, " That the confidence of die jury mu it pronounce the prifoner guilty or not guilty ; for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that could be to the judge, if he at his peiil muft take upon him ihe guilt or innocence of the prifoner; and if the judge's opinion muft rule... | |
 | Henry Dagge - Criminal law - 1772 - 484 pages
...fays, ** That the conference of the Jury muft pronounce the prifoner guilty or L not not guilty : for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that could be t6 the Judge, if he at his peril muft take upon him the guilt or innocence of the prifoner; and if... | |
 | Henry Dagge - Criminal law - 1774 - 374 pages
...313. fays, "That the con-* fcience of the Jury muft pronounce the prifoner guilty or not guilty ; for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that...and if the Judge's opinion muft rule the matter of fact, the trial by Jury would be ufelefs." The learned Author of the Commentaries on the Law of England,... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1797 - 842 pages
...judge of the fafcl. Tr.p. Pat's, 325. L. Vaugh. 135. And to fay the truth, fays L. Hale, it would be the moft unhappy cafe that could be to the judge,...and if the judge's opinion muft rule the matter of fact, the trial by jury would be ufelefs. 2 H. But what if a jury give a verdict againft all reafon,... | |
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That the con-* fcience of the Jury muft pronounce the prifoner guilty or not guilty ; for, to fay the truth, it were the moft unhappy cafe that could be to the Judge, if he at his peril muft take upon him the guilt or innocence of the prifoner; and if... 