Report Made to the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana: On the Plan of a Penal Code for the Said StatesB. Levy & Company, 1822 - 159 |
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... suffering gradual imposition and abuses , which were imperceptible , only because the means of publicity had not been secured . In modern times , the press is so powerful an engine to effect this , that the nation which neglects to ...
... suffering gradual imposition and abuses , which were imperceptible , only because the means of publicity had not been secured . In modern times , the press is so powerful an engine to effect this , that the nation which neglects to ...
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... suffer an ill - advised individual to de- grade them into instruments of ruin , though it should be voluntarily inflicted ; or of death , though that death should be suicide . Another advantage of rendering this mode of trial obligatory ...
... suffer an ill - advised individual to de- grade them into instruments of ruin , though it should be voluntarily inflicted ; or of death , though that death should be suicide . Another advantage of rendering this mode of trial obligatory ...
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... suffer , either by mali- cious combinations of perjured witnesses , in a case so difficult of defence , or by the ready credit that would be given to circumstantial evidence , where direct proof is not easily procured , and where , from ...
... suffer , either by mali- cious combinations of perjured witnesses , in a case so difficult of defence , or by the ready credit that would be given to circumstantial evidence , where direct proof is not easily procured , and where , from ...
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... suffering it , in what they think the impossible event of detection . But present other consequences more directly opposed to the enjoyments which were anticipated in the commission of the crime , make those consequences permanent and ...
... suffering it , in what they think the impossible event of detection . But present other consequences more directly opposed to the enjoyments which were anticipated in the commission of the crime , make those consequences permanent and ...
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... suffering by an unjust sentence ; one such example is remembered , when twenty of merited punishment are forgotten ; the best passions take part against the laws , and arraign their operation as iniquitous . and inhuman . This ...
... suffering by an unjust sentence ; one such example is remembered , when twenty of merited punishment are forgotten ; the best passions take part against the laws , and arraign their operation as iniquitous . and inhuman . This ...
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