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 - Pàgina 196editat per - 1818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1875 - 462 pàgines
...ed.), 439. Lord Hale said he would never convict any person of murder or manslanghter unless the act were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead. 2 Hale's PC 290. This is approved by Blackstone, 4 Com. 358; by Walworth, J., 1 Park. Cr. 609; by Baron... | |
| New Zealand - 1877 - 428 pàgines
...was committed of these 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.' And in Starkie on Evidence (1 Stark. Evid., 4th edit., 862), it is stated to be 'an established rule,... | |
| Sir William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 900 pàgines
...committed of these goods. 2. That a person should never be convicted of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead, (ti) SEC. II. The best possible Evidence must be produced. It is a general rule that you must give... | |
| Theodore Thring, Charles Edwin Gifford - 1877 - 584 pàgines
...committed of these goods. 2. That a person should never be convicted of murder, or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead.1 SECTION III. Of Hearsay Evidence. The general rule is, that hearsay evidence of a fact is not... | |
| William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 778 pàgines
...comtnitted of these goods. 2. That a person should never be convicted of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead.(z) Sec. II. — The best possible Evidence must be produced. IT is a general rule that you must... | |
| California - 1881 - 820 pàgines
...inflicted. "I would never," says Lord Hale, "convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." 2 Hale PC 290. The death should be distinctly proved, cither by direct evidence of the fact, as by... | |
| Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - 1886 - 628 pàgines
...constat." Or, as Lord Hale said, " 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," a rule which, so far as I :\m aware, has been invariably accepted since. In a very recent case indeed... | |
| Ambrose Bolivar Carlton - 1882 - 424 pàgines
...this subject Lord Hale says : " I would never convict any one of murder or manslaughter unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." (a) The death in such a case should be distinctly proved, either by direct evidence of the fact, by... | |
| 1818 - 586 pàgines
...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...are very curious, especially one of them. A young girl,-who lived with her uncle, (who was also her heir at law,) was overheard to say, ' Good uncle... | |
| 1896 - 1166 pàgines
...evidence. Lord Hale said: "I «rould never convict any person of murd«r 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 Pleas of the Crown (page 232, c. 104), a Warwickshire case; another... | |
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