 It is true that rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party...  Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another] - Página 210de sir William Blackstone - 1825Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1845 - 780 páginas
...follows: " It is true, rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death ; but it must be remembered, that it is an accusation easily made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused be he ever so innocent The... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1853 - 884 páginas
...day, as in the time of Sir MATTHEW HALE, it is to be remembered, that rape, though a detestable crime, "is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be...defended by the party accused: though never so innocent." The language of the court, in the case of The Peoplev. Hulsc,(3 Hill3n,) is much in point. It is there... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 784 páginas
...when heard. It is true rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially ng what was wrong. The mode of putting the latter tho never so innocent. I shall never forget a trial before myself of a rape in the county of Sussex.... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 774 páginas
...when heard. It is true rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered,...proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent. I shall never forget a trial before myself of a rape in the county of Sussex.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1848 - 712 páginas
...are in ordinary cases. The offence is peculiar. Lord Hale says, that this accusation is easily made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence. 1 Halt, 635, 636. The act of cohabitation, because of a sense of decency... | |
 | Thomas Percival - 1849 - 214 páginas
...[Comment., hk. iv. ch. 15. vol. iv. p. 210.] peculiar attention : " It is an accusation," says hed, " easily to be made, and hard to be proved ; and harder...accused, though never so innocent." He then relates two extraordinary cases of malicious prosecution for this crime, which had fallen under his own cognizance... | |
 | William Conway Keele - 1851 - 734 páginas
...the whole, rape, it is true, is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered...easily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder lobe defended by the party accused, though never so innocent : therefore, a wise jury will bo cautious... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1854 - 862 páginas
...— one of the greatest and best men that ever lived, that this accusation " is easy to be made — hard to be proved — and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent" — that "upon trials of offences of this nature, the Court and jury may with so much ease be imposed... | |
 | Benjamin Boothby - 1854 - 480 páginas
...treating of this oflence, speaks of it as "an accusation easaly to be made, and hard to be proved, but harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent " (A) General evidence of the bad character of the prosecutrix may be given (г) ; but not of particular... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1856 - 306 páginas
...affix to it an irremediable punishment, seeing that, as Sir M. Hale writes, the accusation is " easy to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be...by the party accused, though never so innocent." He adds, that " he shall never forget a trial before himself for a rape. The prisoner was sixty-three... | |
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