Canadian Criminal Cases Annotated, Volume 17Canada Law Journal Company, 1911 - Criminal law |
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... persons for iden- tical offence - Crown using one after committal for trial as compellable witness against the other - Refusal to answer committal for contempt - Habeas corpus- Person charged with an offence - When a compellable witness ...
... persons for iden- tical offence - Crown using one after committal for trial as compellable witness against the other - Refusal to answer committal for contempt - Habeas corpus- Person charged with an offence - When a compellable witness ...
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... persons might reasonably be expected to go to get liquor . He was The defendant , at the time in question , was alone ... person charged ; certain other things are by the statute deemed prima facie evidence of the unlawful sale of liquor ...
... persons might reasonably be expected to go to get liquor . He was The defendant , at the time in question , was alone ... person charged ; certain other things are by the statute deemed prima facie evidence of the unlawful sale of liquor ...
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... person charged . In this case there was the bare suspicion . There was not a tittle of evidence to shew that the defendant intended to sell this liquor . Perhaps he did , but the law , stringent as it is , and properly so , against ...
... person charged . In this case there was the bare suspicion . There was not a tittle of evidence to shew that the defendant intended to sell this liquor . Perhaps he did , but the law , stringent as it is , and properly so , against ...
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... person on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice , but I cannot withdraw the case from you , and it must go to you , and you are in a position , if you think proper , to accept the state- ment of the witness in the box , if you ...
... person on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice , but I cannot withdraw the case from you , and it must go to you , and you are in a position , if you think proper , to accept the state- ment of the witness in the box , if you ...
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... person to commit the it ; or offence . " . • It is manifest that counselling a murder will not make a man guilty of murder unless the murder is committed . Nor will he be so guilty if it is shewn that his counsel had in fact no effect ...
... person to commit the it ; or offence . " . • It is manifest that counselling a murder will not make a man guilty of murder unless the murder is committed . Nor will he be so guilty if it is shewn that his counsel had in fact no effect ...
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Page 397 - ... provided, that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 419 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars...
Page 273 - IX If the requisition for extradition be in accordance with the foregoing stipulations, the competent authorities of the State applied to shall proceed to the arrest of the fugitive.
Page 349 - ... in all cases where it shall be given in evidence upon the trial of any person charged with treason, murder, or felony, that such person was insane at the time of the commission of such offence, and such person shall be acquitted, the jury shall be required to find specially whether such person was insane at the time of the commission of such offence, and to declare whether such person was acquitted by them on account of such insanity...
Page 359 - ... such carriage, cart, vehicle, or vessel passed in the course of the journey or voyage during which the offence was committed...
Page 458 - I have always considered likeness as an argument of a child's being the son of a parent, and the rather as the distinction between individuals in the human species is more discernible than in other animals. A man may survey ten thousand people before he sees two faces perfectly alike, and in an army of a hundred thousand men every one may be known from another. If there should be a likeness of...
Page 350 - ... if it appears to the jury before whom such person is tried, that he did the act or made the omission charged, but was insane as aforesaid at the time when he did or made the same, the jury shall return a special verdict to the effect that the accused was guilty of the act or omission charged against him, but was insane as aforesaid, at the time when he did the act or made the omission.
Page 104 - Canadian citizen, or has Canadian domicile, shall be permitted to enter or land in Canada, or in case of having landed in or entered Canada shall be permitted to remain therein, who belongs to any of the following classes, hereinafter called 'prohibited classes...
Page 466 - Act, if the magistrate finds the charge proved, he may convict the person charged and commit him to the common gaol or other place of confinement, there to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding six months...
Page 123 - Further, any act done or writing published calculated to obstruct or interfere with the due course of justice or the lawful process of the Courts is a contempt of Court. The former class belongs to the category which Lord Hardwicke LC characterised as "scandalising a Court or a judge.