 | William Hey - 1822 - 654 páginas
...are not even upon a level with the wicked ; for they are punished, while the wicked escape." Ib. " Better that many guilty should escape, than that one innocent person should be punished." Ib. Here, if I may be allowed the expression, Mr. Graham's common sense gets the better... | |
 | 1908 - 474 páginas
...risk that might be faced without reproach through a sentiment akin to that expressed in the maxim ' It is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent person should suffer'. But that is not the sentiment by which natural selection is guided, and it is dangerous to yield far... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1842 - 408 páginas
...victories to be sung, on the other the trophies are not stained with blood, and the notes of wailing and wo mingle not in the chorus. The qualities required for...summed up in a single short sentence, by a highly respectable citizen, when he exclaimed, after musing upon the intelligence of his death — " Well,... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - 1851 - 704 páginas
...confirmation, such evidence is subject to suspicion. The witness may be mistaken. The maxim of the law is, that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent should suffer ; and, whilst we are far from expressing the opinion that the prisoner is innocent, we... | |
 | 1871 - 522 páginas
...maxim of antiquity, De morte hominis nulla cunclatio low/a est; and the still more excellent maxim, " It is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent man should suffer," seems to be entirely ignored by those who promulgate the above dangerous doctrine.... | |
 | Henry Oldright - 1873 - 378 páginas
...justice and humanity, has so commended itself to universal acceptance, as to have grown into the proverb that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. With these rules before me, 1 will examine the evidence as it bears on the following... | |
 | 1886 - 910 páginas
...confirmation, such evidence is subject to suspicion. The witness may be mistaken. The maxim of the law is, that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent should suffer; and whilst we are far from expressing the opinion that the prisoner is innocent, we... | |
 | Dinakara Viṣṇu Gokhale - 1895 - 262 páginas
...consequence than the number of malefactors sentenced. It is an old principle of English jurisprudence that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. Love of law, the conception that it is for the good of all—so deeply implanted... | |
 | John Romain Rood - 1906 - 648 páginas
...rule, if it exists, must be regarded as part of the humane policy of the common law, which affirms that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent should suffer; and that it may have its probable foundation in the idea that where direct proof is... | |
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... against the propagation of class B as would be consonant to the feelings if the forecast were known to be infallible. On the other hand, a large D signifies a corresponding degree of uncertainty, and a risk that might be faced without reproach through... 
