Reports of Cases, Argued and Determined in the Court of Criminal Appeal: From Michaelmas Term, 1848, to Michaelmas Term, 1851, 20. köideS. Sweet, 1852 - 666 pages |
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12 Vict acquitted Act of Parliament Alderson alleged appear authority autrefois acquit BRISBY chattels child clerk Coleridge committed common law contended Counsel count county aforesaid Court Cresswell crime charged criminal Crown death defendant embezzlement evidence examination fact false pretence felony found guilty given held include an assault indictable offence intent John judgment jury found justices Lady the Queen larceny learned Judge Lord Campbell Lord Denman magistrate malice aforethought mare marriage Mary Ann Parsons matter means ment Milo Williams misdemeanour murder oath objection offence opinion owner parish aforesaid Parke party Patteson peace perjury person Phelps Platt pleaded Pollock possession present prisoner prisoner guilty prisoner's prosecution prosecutor prosecutrix proved Quarter Sessions question received referred Robert Courtice Bird Sarah Sarah Waters servant soner stat statement statute stealing stolen submitted sufficient supposed taken TALFOURD Thomas Steer tion trial verdict warrant witness words
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Page 248 - Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge ? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so; but, whatever you say will be taken down in writing, and may be given in evidence...
Page 110 - ... of an act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for the further Amendment of the Laws relating to the Poor in England...
Page 615 - The jury answered the first question in the affirmative and the second in the negative ; and to the third question they answered — " It was their duty to require from the wagon company some distinct assurance that it had been thoroughly examined and repaired.
Page 406 - ... as the case may be; and whenever in any indictment or information for any felony or misdemeanor it shall be necessary to mention, for any purpose whatsoever, any partners, joint tenants, parceners, or tenants in common, it shall be sufficient to...
Page 333 - Riel, against the form of the Statute in such case made and provided and against the peace of our said Lady the Queen, her Crown and dignity.
Page 249 - ... and whatever the prisoner shall then say in answer thereto shall be taken down in writing and read over to him, and shall be signed by the said Justice or Justices, and kept with the depositions of the witnesses and shall be transmitted with them as hereinafter mentioned, and...
Page 469 - It is a very useful rule in the construction of a statute to adhere to the ordinary meaning of the words used and to the grammatical construction, unless that is at variance with the intention of the Legislature, to be collected from the statute itself, or leads to any manifest absurdity or repugnance, in which case the language may be varied or modified so as to avoid such inconvenience, but no further.
Page 59 - And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do say that the said John W. Webster him the said George Parkman, in manner and form aforesaid, then and there, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder...
Page 278 - When any offense against the United States is begun in one Judicial District and completed in another, it shall be deemed to have been committed in either, and may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished in either district, in the same manner as if it had been actually and wholly committed therein.
Page 238 - ... who ought to receive and collect the same, by warrant under the hand and seal of such justice, to convene before any two or more such justices of the peace any person so refusing or neglecting to pay such rate, and to examine upon oath (which oath the said justices are hereby...