Crown Cases Reserved for Consideration [1824-44]: 1824 to 1837T. & J.W. Johnson, 1839 - Criminal law |
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... asked why execution should not be awarded , and that they might then pray their clergy . ( a ) ( a ) See 56 G. 3 , c . 27 , § 3 , by which it is enacted , that when his Majesty shall be pleased to extend mercy to any offender who hath ...
... asked why execution should not be awarded , and that they might then pray their clergy . ( a ) ( a ) See 56 G. 3 , c . 27 , § 3 , by which it is enacted , that when his Majesty shall be pleased to extend mercy to any offender who hath ...
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... asked him if any person had been concerned with him , or induced him to do it ? The prisoner said he had not done it . The police officer replied , that he would not have told so many falsehoods as he had , if he had not been concerned ...
... asked him if any person had been concerned with him , or induced him to do it ? The prisoner said he had not done it . The police officer replied , that he would not have told so many falsehoods as he had , if he had not been concerned ...
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... asked if they thought he might have found it three weeks after they were together in company on the 4th of Novem- ber , and one of them said " yes . " The learned Judge said that was an acquittal , and a verdict of not guilty was ...
... asked if they thought he might have found it three weeks after they were together in company on the 4th of Novem- ber , and one of them said " yes . " The learned Judge said that was an acquittal , and a verdict of not guilty was ...
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... asked him whether he was ready to prove these previous requisites . ( b ) ( a ) The 9 G. 1 , c . 22 , s . 1 , enacts , that if any person shall set fire to any house , barn or out - house , or to any hovel , cock , mow , or stack of ...
... asked him whether he was ready to prove these previous requisites . ( b ) ( a ) The 9 G. 1 , c . 22 , s . 1 , enacts , that if any person shall set fire to any house , barn or out - house , or to any hovel , cock , mow , or stack of ...
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... asked for Miss Glaspool . She went out to speak to him , and remained out half an hour . The prisoner was apprehended that morning , at a public house in Dover - street , Piccadilly ; and before he was apprehended , he said to the son ...
... asked for Miss Glaspool . She went out to speak to him , and remained out half an hour . The prisoner was apprehended that morning , at a public house in Dover - street , Piccadilly ; and before he was apprehended , he said to the son ...
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Page 155 - ... every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years, or to suffer such other punishment, by fine or imprisonment, or by both, as the court shall award...
Page 247 - And be it enacted, that if any person shall steal any horse, mare, gelding, colt, or filly, or any bull, cow, ox, heifer, or calf, or any ram, ewe, sheep, or lamb, or shall wilfully kill any of such cattle with intent to steal the carcase, or skin, or any part of the cattle so killed, every such offender shall be guilty of felony...
Page 343 - That if any clerk or servant, or any person employed for the purpose or in the capacity of a clerk or servant, shall, by virtue of such employment, receive or take into his possession any chattel, money, or valuable security, for or in the name or on the account of his master...
Page 443 - That whosoever shall administer to or cause to be taken by any person any poison or other destructive thing...
Page 259 - Employer otherwise than by the actual Possession of his Clerk, Servant, or other Person so employed...
Page 391 - ... every person playing or betting in any street, road, highway, or other open and public place, at or with any table or instrument of gaming, at any game or pretended game of chance...
Page 482 - That if any Woman shall be delivered of a Child, and shall, by secret burying or otherwise disposing of the dead Body of the said Child, endeavour to conceal the Birth thereof...
Page 52 - That if any person shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly aid or assist in falsely making...
Page 176 - Navigation, such Felony or Misdemeanor may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined and punished...
Page 194 - And indeed, even in cases of felony at the common law, they are the weakest and most suspicious of all testimony : ever liable to be obtained by artifice, false hopes, promises of favor, or menaces ; seldom remembered accurately, or reported with due precision ; and incapable in their nature of being disproved by other negative evidence.