 | Joseph Goodeve - 1871 - 914 páginas
...person unknown, merely because he, [that is the party in whose possession they may have been found], would not give an account how he came by them, unless...proved to be done, or at least, the body found dead" (2). Lord Stowell observes on the same subject — " If you have a criminal fact ascertained, you may... | |
 | India, Fendall Currie - 1872 - 1084 páginas
...approbation : " I would never," says he, " convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless the fact was proved to be done, or at least the body found dead."...homicide the accused shall not be convicted, unless death be first distinctly proved, either by direct evidence of the fact, or by the inspection of the... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1872 - 806 páginas
...the tendency is very strong in this of the rule, to 2 Hale PC 290, where this learned person says : " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter...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 c. 104, p. 232, a Warwickshire case;... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1874 - 834 páginas
...an account how he came by them, unless there were due proof made that a felony had been committed. I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter,...were proved to be done, or at least, the body found dead."M Equally emphatic was the language of another great judge : " To take presumptions, in order... | |
 | India - 1874 - 656 páginas
...for murder if the injured man died ten years afterwards. Lord Hale lays it down as a rule, never to convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead; and he mentions a case in which a man was executed for the murder of another, who afterwards returned from... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 páginas
...give an account how he came by them, unless there was due proof made that a felony had been committed. 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." 1 Whart. Crim. Law, § 745-46. A writer of... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1875 - 856 páginas
...account how he came by them, unless there were due proof made that a felony was committed of these goods. I would never convict any person of murder...were , proved to be done, or at least, the body found dead."2 Equally emphatic was the language of another great judge : " To take presumptions, in order... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1875 - 866 páginas
...an account how he came by them, unless there were due proof made that a felony had been committed. I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead. " 1 Whart. Crim. Law, §§ 745, 746. A writer of standard excellence has said: It may be doubted whether... | |
 | 1875 - 462 páginas
...ed.), 439. Lord Hale said he would never convict any person of murder or manslanghter unless the act were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead. 2 Hale's PC 290. This is approved by Blackstone, 4 Com. 358; by Walworth, J., 1 Park. Cr. 609; by Baron... | |
 | New Zealand - 1877 - 428 páginas
...an account of how he came by them, unless there were due proof that a felony was committed of these goods. I would never convict any person of murder...to be done, or, at least, the body found dead.' And in Starkie on Evidence (1 Stark. Evid., 4th edit., 862), it is stated to be 'an established rule, upon... | |
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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. 
