A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law: Comprising the Practice, Pleadings and Evidence which Occur in the Course of Criminal Prosecutions, Whether by Indictment Or Information: with a Copious Collection of Precedents of Indictments, Informations, Presentments, and Every Description of Practical Forms, with Comprehensive Notes Upon Each Offence, the Process, Indictment, Plea, Defence, Evidence, Trial, Verdict, Judgment, and Punishment, 1. köideSamuel Brooke, 1826 |
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... discharge the prisoner in cases where he considers there is no ground for the accusation ; the recognizances to prosecute and give evidence ; the duty to certify the examination and re- DINS LADI cognizances to the proper court ; the ...
... discharge the prisoner in cases where he considers there is no ground for the accusation ; the recognizances to prosecute and give evidence ; the duty to certify the examination and re- DINS LADI cognizances to the proper court ; the ...
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... discharge of his duty . And as it would be a great discou- and liability of ragement to public justices , if he were liable to an action , when he was mistaken in the object of his suspicions , it is settled that he cannot be sued for ...
... discharge of his duty . And as it would be a great discou- and liability of ragement to public justices , if he were liable to an action , when he was mistaken in the object of his suspicions , it is settled that he cannot be sued for ...
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... discharge himself from liability for an escape , by delivering him to a constable , or he may himself take him before a magistrate ( b ) . Justices of the peace have a double power in relation to the arrest of wrong - doers , the first ...
... discharge himself from liability for an escape , by delivering him to a constable , or he may himself take him before a magistrate ( b ) . Justices of the peace have a double power in relation to the arrest of wrong - doers , the first ...
Page 63
... discharge will be prevented , and if the offence was committed in another county , he may be sent thither by habeas corpus to take his trial at the assizes . A prisoner in custody on a criminal account , cannot be charged in a civil ...
... discharge will be prevented , and if the offence was committed in another county , he may be sent thither by habeas corpus to take his trial at the assizes . A prisoner in custody on a criminal account , cannot be charged in a civil ...
Page 66
... discharged if they were not stolen : and if they were , not by him , but by another person , who sold or delivered them to him , and it appear that he was ignorant of the mode in which they were procured , he may be discharged , but ...
... discharged if they were not stolen : and if they were , not by him , but by another person , who sold or delivered them to him , and it appear that he was ignorant of the mode in which they were procured , he may be discharged , but ...
Common terms and phrases
8th edit accessary acquitted affidavit appear arrest assizes attainder bail benefit of clergy Burn Burr Campb certiorari charge clergy clerk committed common law constable conviction court of King's Cowp crime criminal custody Dalt defendant Dick dictment discharge East P. C. Eliz evidence execution felony Forfeiture Fost gaol delivery grand jury granted guilty habeas corpus Hale Hand's Prac Harg Hawk holden ibid imprisonment indictment Inst issue judge judgment jurors justice King's Bench last vol latter Leach magistrate ment misdemeanor mode murder nisi prius oath offence officer outlawry oyer and terminer pardon party peace perjury person plea plead prisoner proceedings prosecution prosecutor punishment quarter sessions Raym recognizance rule Russ Salk Saund sentence Sess sessions sheriff statute Stra sufficient sworn Tidd tion treason trial verdict warrant Williams witness writ
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Page 73 - Facts were committed, and the Defendant may plead the General Issue, and give the Special Matter in Evidence...
Page 523 - ... truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!
Page 480 - You shall well and truly try, and true deliverance make, between our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, whom you shall have in charge, and a true verdict give, according to the evidence. So help you God.
Page 231 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 768 - Souls, in this same term ; and for our said lord the king gives the court here to understand and be informed that Sir F.
Page 127 - ... offence is properly cognizable, as the case shall require, and then shall certify the said writ with the return thereof and the said recognizance or recognizances into the said court where such appearance is to be made...
Page 610 - that, from the conviction, the defendant shall be out of the king's protection, and his lands and tenements, goods and chattels, forfeited to the king: and that his body shall remain in prison at the king's pleasure ; or (as other authorities have it) during life...
Page 540 - well and truly to keep the jury, and neither to speak to them themselves, nor suffer any other person to speak to them touching any matter relative to this trial (z).
Page 324 - ... lawful for such judge to issue his warrant under his hand and seal, and thereby to cause such person to be apprehended and brought before him, or some other judge of the same court, or before some one of...
Page 105 - ... unless it be by habeas corpus or some other legal writ, or where the prisoner is delivered to the constable or other inferior officer to...