 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 544 pages
...enough to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel for the respondent have stremiousiy urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 514 pages
...enough to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel fpr the respondent have strenuously urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 444 pages
...sheets, as promiscuously as comfits over a wedding cake. But as, according to the maxim of the law, every man is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty, we shall select some passages, as usual. " An ambiguity is properly latent in the sense of the law,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...promiscuously as comfits over a wedding cake. But as, according to the maxim of the law, every mail is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty, we shall select some passages, as usual. " An ambiguity is properly latent in the sense of the law,... | |
 | Andrew McKinley, John Dow - Treason - 1818 - 568 pages
...to be in fevour of the prisoner. Where there is any doubt, it operates in favour of the pannel. He is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; and that presumption operates upon every doubtful case. IndubiisberrigniorapreeIerendamml. And this... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...our country ; and so great is the benignity of the laws, that the accused in our Courts of Justice is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. Imagine then the pungency of my regret when I found myself condemned without evidence, and debarred... | |
 | Trials - 1826 - 810 pages
...rules, to be in favour of the prisoner. Where there is any doubt, it operates in favour of the panel. He is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; and that presumption operates upon every doubtful case. In iiubtis benigiuora praferenda unit. And... | |
 | North Ludlow Beamish - 1829 - 234 pages
...forbid that any observation which I have made should induce you to forget that ancient and wholcs >me maxim of our law, that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. At tht same time, I have no hesitation in repeating that if my statement is borne out by the evidence,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - France - 1832 - 552 pages
...expiatory victims. I am not possessed of the proofs which exist against them, and it is, you know, a maxim of our law, that every man is presumed to be innocent, untfl his guilt is proved. If one may judge from the infinite precautions taken, one would conclude... | |
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The accused has a right to demand it, on the simple principle that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. 
