I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap. The Quarterly Review - Página 1921818Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Idaho - 1901 - 620 páginas
...Invoked, the corpus delicti must be established beyond reasonable doubt. "I would never," says Lord Hale, "convict any person of murder or manslaughter...proved to be done, or at least, the body found dead." "The death should be distinctly proved, either by direct evidence of the fact, by inspection Df the... | |
| Harry Lushington Stephen - 1902 - 358 páginas
...judge, and knighted at the Restoration. This trial occurred on his first circuit. 2 'I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...least the body found dead, for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my Lord Coke's Pleas of the Crown, cap. 104, p. 232, a Warwickshire case,' and another... | |
| John Dawson Mayne - 1904 - 1186 páginas
...culpable homicide, the first thing, of course, is to prove the death. Lord Hale says : " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." ' He mentions two cages ; one within his own knowledge, where A was missing, and B was supposed to... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - 1904 - 1152 páginas
...seas." Lord Hale at one time laid down the rule that in cases of homicide, no conviction should be had unless the fact were proved to be done or at least the body found. This rule was commented upon and approved in Rulofl v. People, 1& NT 179, the court saying: •"This... | |
| Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1906 - 744 páginas
...have been murdered is based upon the statement of Lord HALE in 2 Hale, PC 290. that "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." This statement was made at a time when a prisoner charged with a felony was not accorded the right... | |
| John Romain Rood - 1906 - 648 páginas
...Not guilty. R. v. Knock, 14 Cox CC 1, C. 192, F. 206. § 108. Proof of Corpus Delicti. "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead, aud this for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my Lord Coke 's PC, c. 104, p. 232. " * * * 2... | |
| Canada, W. J. Tremeear - 1908 - 1116 páginas
...murder unless the body of the deceased has been found, and a very great judge says, "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...fact were proved to be done, or at least the body he found dead." 2 Hale 290. Lord Hale only laid this down as a caution, not as a rule in every case.... | |
| John Henry Wigmore - 1913 - 1422 páginas
...committed of these goods. I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact was proved to be done, or at least the body found dead, — for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap. 104, p. 232, a Warwickshire case, another that happened in... | |
| Marshall Davis Ewell - 1915 - 1178 páginas
...all substitutes. Thus, it is an established rule that a prisoner shall not be convicted of murder, " unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body be found dead."3 But real evidence is often produced at trials, when it is not exacted by any rule... | |
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