| William Forsyth - 1849 - 528 páginas
...VANE AND SIDNEY DENIED COUNSEL. 359 rebuke to the attorney-general, who forgot the humane maxim of the law, that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty, make us warmly sympathize with him. And yet the judges who sat upon his trial, Lord Commissioner Keble,... | |
| 1855 - 736 páginas
...obstruct a due and impartial administration of justice, would so obviously convert a court of law, where every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty, into a mere field for the enforcement of Lynch law under the forms of justice, that to be condemned... | |
| 1849 - 610 páginas
...point of justice, to defend innocence, as to prosecute guilt ? Every man charged with guilt on trial, is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty. But the government seeks only for the evidence of guilt, presents only one side of a fact, which has.... | |
| United States. Congress - 1852 - 890 páginas
...enough to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel for the respondent have strenuously urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case... | |
| United States. Congress - 1852 - 886 páginas
...enough to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel for the respondent have strenuously urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case... | |
| John Clerk - 1857 - 756 páginas
...; until that has taken place there is only the accusation of bribery or treating, and not the fact. Every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. This was no doubt the view taken in the case of Penryn, C. & D. 55. On the other hand it may be said,... | |
| David Rowland - 1859 - 606 páginas
...protected by a constitutional rule or principle, — that every man accused of crime against the law, is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty. That principle operates to protect the accused throughout the whole course of criminal proceedings.... | |
| Demosthenes - 1861 - 432 páginas
...improvement in the administration of justice. " The accused has a right to demand it, on the simple principle that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. If he has a right to be examined in a civil cause, why not on a criminal charge, when, by the hypothesis... | |
| Demosthenes - 1861 - 486 páginas
...improvement in the administration of justice. " The accused has a right to demand it, on the simple principle that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. If he has a right to be examined in a civil cause, why not on a criminal charge, when, by the hypothesis... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1861 - 822 páginas
..." All the presumptions of Law, independent of evidence, are in favor of innocence, and every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The burden «£ the proof is, therefore, on the State, to establish, by evidence, the crime charged... | |
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