A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana: Consisting of a Code of Crimes and Punishments, a Code of Procedure, a Code of Evidence, a Code of Reform and Prison Discipline, a Book of Definitions, Prepared Under the Authority of a Law of the Said StateJ. Kay, Jun., 1833 - 745 Seiten |
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... interest in his conviction ; and whether guilty or innocent , it has a higher interest , that the fact should be fairly canvassed before judges inaccessible to influence , and unbiassed by any false views of official duty . It has an ...
... interest in his conviction ; and whether guilty or innocent , it has a higher interest , that the fact should be fairly canvassed before judges inaccessible to influence , and unbiassed by any false views of official duty . It has an ...
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... interest of the people , and it is neglected as an useless , or abandoned as a mischievous contrivance . In England , the panel is made up by an officer of the crown ; but there are many correctives which lessen the effect of this vice ...
... interest of the people , and it is neglected as an useless , or abandoned as a mischievous contrivance . In England , the panel is made up by an officer of the crown ; but there are many correctives which lessen the effect of this vice ...
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... interest of the government to multiply convictions . This last characteristic is perhaps the reason why it retains a place in the penal jurisprudence of Europe . The next four heads may be classed together : the pillory , stocks , and ...
... interest of the government to multiply convictions . This last characteristic is perhaps the reason why it retains a place in the penal jurisprudence of Europe . The next four heads may be classed together : the pillory , stocks , and ...
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... interest and curiosity ; when the public mind is screwed up to this pitch , it will take a tone from the circumstances of the case , which will rarely be found to accord with the impartiality acquired by justice . If the accused excite ...
... interest and curiosity ; when the public mind is screwed up to this pitch , it will take a tone from the circumstances of the case , which will rarely be found to accord with the impartiality acquired by justice . If the accused excite ...
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... interest or instruction . Murder , in all the states , is punished with death ; in most of them it is , except treason ( which never occurred under the state laws ) , the only crime that is so punished . If this were the most effi ...
... interest or instruction . Murder , in all the states , is punished with death ; in most of them it is , except treason ( which never occurred under the state laws ) , the only crime that is so punished . If this were the most effi ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 130 - Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.
Seite 69 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Seite 69 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original States and the people and States in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Seite 404 - ... in a sum not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than two years.
Seite 249 - No person or collection of persons, being one of those departments, shall exercise any power, properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.
Seite 142 - That if any person shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any...
Seite 249 - The powers of the government of the State of Mississippi shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit: those which are legislative to one. those which are judicial to another, and those which are executive to another.
Seite 679 - ... 2. In other cases, the judgment or order is, in respect to the matter directly adjudged, conclusive between the parties and their successors in interest by title subsequent to the commencement of the action or special proceeding, litigating for the same thing under the same title and in the same capacity, provided they have notice, actual or constructive, of the pendency of the action or proceeding.
Seite 528 - ... upon such trial, the officers, whether judicial or ministerial, whose irregularity is complained of, as well as any other persons, may be examined to prove or disprove the facts alleged as the ground of the challenge.
Seite 493 - If a party brought before the court or judge on the return of the writ is not entitled to his discharge, and is not bailed, where such bail is allowable, the court or judge must remand him to custody or place him under the restraint from which he was taken, if the person under whose custody or restraint he was is legally entitled thereto.