 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
 | Arthur Percival Will - 1896 - 580 páginas
...author from whom we have just quoted has said, that " it is an accusation easily to be made, and hardly to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." 2 Such cases, he further observes, are not uncommon, and he has related the particulars of two cases,... | |
 | 1905 - 620 páginas
...is true,' he says, ' 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 ea3ily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1900 - 1030 páginas
...This was natural. But it must not be forgotten that in this class of cases the "accusation was easy to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent," coming as it did from a child of six years, with no other witnesses to the act. It was proper that... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1900 - 1040 páginas
...This was natural. But it must not be forgotten that in this class of cases the "accusation was easy to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never BO innocent," coming as it did from a child of six years, with no other witnesses to the act. It was... | |
 | 1900 - 1068 páginas
...crime of rape, — on account of the fact, as Lord Hale puts It, "that this accusation is easily made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence," — the defendant "is let in, In his defense, to some privileges which... | |
 | 1904 - 872 páginas
...is true,' he says, ' rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. I shall never forget a trial before myself of a rape in the *>. C. 1UU4 county of Sussex,' etc. : pp.... | |
 | John Dawson Mayne - 1904 - 1186 páginas
...accusation which requires to be watched with more caution than a charge of rape. As Lord Hale says, " It is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to...by the party accused, though never so innocent." He mentions a case which was tried before himself, in which a wealthy old man of about sixty-three was... | |
 | 1908 - 1354 páginas
...the conviction of the defendant. The admonition of Lord Hale that "It must be remembered that this is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to he defended by the party accused, though never so innocent," must be heeded. While It is the law of... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - 1910 - 460 páginas
...said: "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 easy to make, hard to be proved, but harder to be defended by the party accused, though innocent."... | |
 | 1912 - 1294 páginas
...Hale's statement in regard to the crime of rape has frequently been approved by the courts. He said : "It must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to he proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." 1 Hale PC 635.... | |
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