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... Atlantic Reporter - Стр. 731911Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Samuel Glasse - 1788 - Страниц: 690
...punifhed *36with death ; but it mud be remembered, that it is an accufation eafily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accofed, tho' never fo innocent: therefore, a wife jury will be cautious upon trials of offences of... | |
| Sir Matthew Hale - 1800 - Страниц: 546
...634, 635 Where an infant ravifljed (hall be heard without onth 631,635 Accufation of a rape eafily made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the accufed, t,')O never fo innocent, and many inftances thereof 635, 636. U. 290 Health. Realm of England... | |
| Matthew Hale, Sir Matthew Hale - 1800 - Страниц: 686
...be punifhed with death ; but it muft be remembered, that it is an accufation eafily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accufed, tho never fo innocent. . 541* liban I (hall never forget a trial befóte myfelf of a rape... | |
| John M'Arthur - 1805 - Страниц: 494
...crime of a rape may be applied to the other more deteftable offence, that it is an accufation eafily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accufed though ever fo innocent *. If the party, as laid down by Lord Hale, on whom the .offence of... | |
| Edward Hyde East - 1806 - Страниц: 556
...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 accused, though ever so innocent. And there- i Hale, 633. fore, says he, though the party ravished be in law a com-4Blac.Com.213. petent... | |
| William Waller Hening - 1810 - Страниц: 710
...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 accused, though never so innocent. Therefore a wise jury will be cautious upon trials of offences of this nature, that... | |
| Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - 1811 - Страниц: 662
...be punished with death j 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 accused, though ever so innocent." " And therefore," says he, " though the party injured be in law a competent witness, yet the credibility... | |
| Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - 1811 - Страниц: 652
...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 accused, thong!] ever so innocent." " And therefore," says he, " though the party injured be in law a competent... | |
| Joseph Chitty - 1819 - Страниц: 542
...been laid down which it will always be safe to observe. Lord Hale lays down that this accusation is easily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence; and he adduces some striking instances within his own knowledge where... | |
| Richard Burn - 1820 - Страниц: 758
...impartially to be punished with death : but it must be remembered, it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." He then mentions two remarkable cases of malicious prosecution for this crime,... | |
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