 I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.  The Quarterly Review - Pągina 196editat per - 1818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Great Britain. Courts, Thomas Leach - 1815 - 582 pągines
...290, where his Lordship says, " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead," and he mentioned a remarkable case which had happened before MR. JUSTICE GOULD. The case was this.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 590 pągines
...readers. ' I would never (says Sir Matthew Hale) convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body...uncle, (who was also her heir at law,) was overheard to iay, ' Good uncle, do not kill me !' Very soon afterwards, the child disappeared; and the uncle, being... | |
 | Edward Christian - 1820 - 148 pągines
...and he observes upon them, " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead, for the sake of two cases" which he relates, where the prisoner in each was found guilty and executed, arid the person charged... | |
 | William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pągines
...2DO. Where Lord Hale said, " I would never convict any person of murder or nuaalauglUer, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found, for the sake of two cases ; one mentioned in my Lord Coke's PC Ml, 1>. 232, a II a, ,i/,i. .:•,,:•... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1828 - 836 pągines
...East. 312, 315. (<) By Buller, J., in Berrymaji t. Wise, 4 TR 366. murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead.(w) SECTION II. The best possible Evidence must be produced. It is a general rule that you must... | |
 | 1830 - 430 pągines
...these. " I would never "convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless the fact were proved to b« "done or at least the body found dead, for the sake of two cases, one mentioned by "my Lord Coke which was a Warwickshire case." Gentlemen, I will trespass on yonr time... | |
 | William Hough - 1834 - 400 pągines
...1312. Sir Matthew Hale says, "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found." Starlie, vol. ip 33. If a bodv be thrown overboard, it may not be found. 330 1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th. 5th.... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1840 - 910 pągines
...of these goods." And again, " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least, the body found dead." 2 Hale, 290. So it is said by Sir William Blackslonc, 4 Comm. 359. that all presumptive evidence of... | |
 | 1843 - 604 pągines
...observes the eminent lawyer last quoted, " convict any person of murder, or manslaughter, unless the fact •were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." Burnet, one of the greatest of our Scold) criminal law authorities, lays it down as " a leading and... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - 1845 - 232 pągines
...was committed of those goods. I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or, at least, the body found dead :"(æ>) and Mr. Starkie states it to be an established rule, that, upon charges of homicide, the accused... | |
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