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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... interest in his conviction ; and whether guilty or innocent , it has a higher interest , that the fact should be fairly canvassed before judges inaccessible to influence , and unbiassed by any false views of official duty . It has an ...
... interest in his conviction ; and whether guilty or innocent , it has a higher interest , that the fact should be fairly canvassed before judges inaccessible to influence , and unbiassed by any false views of official duty . It has an ...
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... interest of the people , and it is neglected as an useless , or abandoned as a mischievous contrivance . In England , the panel is made up by an officer of the crown ; but there are many correctives which lessen the effect of this vice ...
... interest of the people , and it is neglected as an useless , or abandoned as a mischievous contrivance . In England , the panel is made up by an officer of the crown ; but there are many correctives which lessen the effect of this vice ...
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... interest of the government to multiply convictions . This last characteristic is perhaps the reason why it retains a place in the penal jurisprudence of Europe . The next four heads may be classed together : the pillory , stocks , and ...
... interest of the government to multiply convictions . This last characteristic is perhaps the reason why it retains a place in the penal jurisprudence of Europe . The next four heads may be classed together : the pillory , stocks , and ...
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... interest and curiosity ; when the public mind is screwed up to this pitch , it will take a tone from the circumstances of the case , which will rarely be found to accord with the impartiality acquired by justice . If the accused excite ...
... interest and curiosity ; when the public mind is screwed up to this pitch , it will take a tone from the circumstances of the case , which will rarely be found to accord with the impartiality acquired by justice . If the accused excite ...
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... interest or instruction . Murder , in all the states , is punished with death ; in most of them it is , except treason ( which never occurred under the state laws ) , the only crime that is so punished . If this were the most effi ...
... interest or instruction . Murder , in all the states , is punished with death ; in most of them it is , except treason ( which never occurred under the state laws ) , the only crime that is so punished . If this were the most effi ...
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