 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...  A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown - Page 445by Edward Hyde East - 2004 - 1126 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Samuel Glasse - Forms (Law) - 1788 - 692 pages
...//. //. 635. and therefore ought feverely and impartially to be punifhed *36with death ; but it mud be remembered, that it is an accufation eafily to...be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accofed, tho' never fo innocent: therefore, a wife jury will be cautious upon trials of offences of... | |
 | Matthew Hale, Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1800 - 686 pages
...deteftable crime, and therefore ought feverely and impartially to be punifhed with death ; but it muft be remembered, that it is an accufation eafily to...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accufed, tho never fo innocent. . 541* liban I (hall never forget a trial befóte myfelf of a rape in the county... | |
 | John M'Arthur - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1805 - 494 pages
...rape may be applied to the other more deteftable offence, that it is an accufation eafily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accufed though ever fo innocent *. If the party, as laid down by Lord Hale, on whom the .offence of fodomy is committed, be not within... | |
 | William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...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 accused, though never so innocent. Therefore a wise jury will be cautious upon trials of offences of... | |
 | Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - Books - 1811 - 662 pages
...ought impartially to be punished with death j 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 accused, though ever so innocent." " And therefore," says he, " though the party injured be in law... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Criminal law - 1819 - 542 pages
...which it will always be safe to observe. Lord Hale lays down that this accusation is easily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence; and he adduces some striking instances within his own knowledge... | |
 | Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1820 - 758 pages
...severely and impartially to be punished with death : but it must be remembered, it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." He then mentions two remarkable cases of malicious prosecution... | |
 | Edward Christian - Criminal law - 1820 - 148 pages
...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 accused, though never so innocent. " I shall never forget a trial before myself of a rape in the County... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - Criminal law - 1824 - 594 pages
...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 accused, though never so innocent." (s; He then mentions two remarkable cases of malicious prosecution... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...impar" tially 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 accused, " though never so innocent." He then relates two very extraordinary cases of malicious prosecution... | |
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