 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
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1906 - 744 pàgines
...HALE in 2 Hale, PC 290. that "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." This statement was made at a time when a prisoner charged with a felony was not accorded the right... | |
 | John Romain Rood - 1906 - 648 pàgines
...108. Proof of Corpus Delicti. "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, aud this for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my Lord Coke 's PC, c. 104, p. 232. " * * * 2... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1913 - 1422 pàgines
...committed of these goods. I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact was 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. 104, p. 232, a Warwickshire case, another that happened in... | |
 | Henry Roscoe, Herman Cohen - 1921 - 1368 pàgines
...statutory recognition of ' not proved,' see p. 403.) person of murder or manslaughter, unless tlie fact were proved to be done, or, at least, the body found dead.' 2 PC 290. So it is said by Blackstone, 4 Comm/ 359, 'all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted... | |
 | 1923 - 1208 pàgines
...a felony had been committed. 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.' 1 Whart. Crim. Law, §§ 745. 746. A writer of standard excellence lins said: It may be doubted whether... | |
 | 1896 - 582 pàgines
...evidence. Lord Hale said: "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless the tin were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead, for the sake of two cases, — one mentioned in mj Lord Coke's Pleas of the Crown (page 232, ch. 104), > Warwickshire case; another... | |
 | 1880 - 546 pàgines
...Lord Hale's statement that he "would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead," Fitzgerald, J., added : "This rule, which is one rather of judicial practice that part of the law of... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - 1928 - 876 pàgines
...a felony had been committed. 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.' [1 Whart. Crim. Law, sees. 745-46.] A writer of standard excellence has said: 'It may be doubted whether... | |
 | 1904 - 852 pàgines
...290) laid it down as a definite rule "never to convict any one of murder or manslaughter unless the fact were proved to be done or at least the body found/' To show the necessity of such caution he cites cases in which, after prisoners had been executed for... | |
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