A System of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana: Consisting of a Code of Crimes and Punishments, a Code of Procedure, a Code of Evidence, a Code of Reform and Prison Discipline, a Book of Definitions, Prepared Under the Authority of a Law of the Said StateJ. Kay, Jun., 1833 - 745 |
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... jury , the rare infliction of torture ; and in latter times , the law of habeas corpus , gave a decided superiority to the penal law of England over that of its neighbours . The nation , unfortunately , mistook this superiority for ...
... jury , the rare infliction of torture ; and in latter times , the law of habeas corpus , gave a decided superiority to the penal law of England over that of its neighbours . The nation , unfortunately , mistook this superiority for ...
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... jury is secured to the ac- cused , but it is not exclusively established . This , however , may be done by law , and there are so many strong reasons in its favour , that it has been thought proper to insert in the code , a precise ...
... jury is secured to the ac- cused , but it is not exclusively established . This , however , may be done by law , and there are so many strong reasons in its favour , that it has been thought proper to insert in the code , a precise ...
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... jury as useless , as rarely employed , and as insignificant in a crimi- nal court , as our laws have already made it in civil jurisdiction . Those who advocate the present disposition of our law , say - admit- ting the trial by jury to ...
... jury as useless , as rarely employed , and as insignificant in a crimi- nal court , as our laws have already made it in civil jurisdiction . Those who advocate the present disposition of our law , say - admit- ting the trial by jury to ...
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... JURY , taken by lot from among themselves , they cannot cease to be free . The information it spreads ; the sense of dignity and independence it inspires ; the courage it creates , will always give them an energy of resistance , that ...
... JURY , taken by lot from among themselves , they cannot cease to be free . The information it spreads ; the sense of dignity and independence it inspires ; the courage it creates , will always give them an energy of resistance , that ...
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... juries have some- times been found to interpose between executive power and its victims ; and the very name ( for it is , in fact , very little more ) of the trial by jury , is now , under the monarchy of France , the object of royal ...
... juries have some- times been found to interpose between executive power and its victims ; and the very name ( for it is , in fact , very little more ) of the trial by jury , is now , under the monarchy of France , the object of royal ...
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