...him may seem advantageous." (4) Human conscience readily would concur with Blackstone in the belief "that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Accordingly the presumption of innocence in favor of every person accused of any crime has become imbedded...

...hesitate to say that "all presumptive evidence of felony should be received cautiously; for the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer."1 ° In criminal actions, however, it is well settled in this country and in England, that...

...the subject of reasonable doubt, it is not error to refuse an instruction, asked by the defendant, that it is better that " ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent sufier." Appeal from circuit court, Jasper county. Edwin P. Hammond and Mordecai & Chilcote, for appellant....

...Blackstone (1723-80), English jurist and legal writer, said in his Commentaries, vol. IV, chap. 27, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Perhaps Cunningham's exaggeration of the number owes something to Christ's statement in Luke 15:7:...

...no repentance" (Luke 15:7) — and Sir William Blackstone (1723-80), commentator on English law — "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" (Commentaries on the Laws of England [176569], volume 4, chapter 27). 6.477 (100:11). unweeded garden...

...presupposed a particular definition of institutional fair play, memorialized in Blackstone's maxim that "it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." " Ironically, the central targets of distrust singled out under the due process model included some...

...Laws of England, 9th ed., book 4, chapter 27, p. 358 (1783, reprinted 1978), says, "For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." 954 Justice delayed is justice denied. Attributed to WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE.— Laurence J. Peter, Peter's...

...hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT. Matthew 5:6. 5 , SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONf. (1723-1780). English jurisl. Commeniarici on the Laws of England, vol. 4. ch....

...truism in western nations ever since. In the pithy formulation of Sir William Blackstone, the maxim says that "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent party suffer."11 This use of numbers, of course, is a mere rhetorical device designed to make its message...

...guilty one. This latter assumption is consistent with the principle derived from English common law that "it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."7 The Naval and Military academies require that honor verdicts be based or a "preponderance...