 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 514 страница
...enough to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel fpr the respondent have strenuously urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 544 страница
...enough to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel for the respondent have stremiousiy urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 444 страница
...sheets, as promiscuously as comfits over a wedding cake. But as, according to the maxim of the law, every man is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty, we shall select some passages, as usual. " An ambiguity is properly latent in the sense of the law,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 страница
...promiscuously as comfits over a wedding cake. But as, according to the maxim of the law, every mail is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty, we shall select some passages, as usual. " An ambiguity is properly latent in the sense of the law,... | |
 | Andrew McKinley, John Dow - 1818 - 568 страница
...to be in fevour of the prisoner. Where there is any doubt, it operates in favour of the pannel. He is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; and that presumption operates upon every doubtful case. IndubiisberrigniorapreeIerendamml. And this... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 страница
...our country ; and so great is the benignity of the laws, that the accused in our Courts of Justice is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. Imagine then the pungency of my regret when I found myself condemned without evidence, and debarred... | |
 | 1826 - 810 страница
...rules, to be in favour of the prisoner. Where there is any doubt, it operates in favour of the panel. He is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; and that presumption operates upon every doubtful case. In iiubtis benigiuora praferenda unit. And... | |
 | North Ludlow Beamish - 1829 - 314 страница
...observation which I have made should induce you to forget that ancient and wholesome maxim of our law, that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. At the same time, I have no hesitation in repeating that if my statement is borne out by the evidence,... | |
 | the brithish and foreign lmedical review - 1845 - 594 страница
...been carefully kept out of the way,) so long you are to bow down and worship it. By the English law, every man is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty. In Dr. Wigan's code of logic, everything is true, which has not been proved to be false. Now we shall... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1849 - 538 страница
...Chief Justice of England. rebuke to the attorney-general, who forgot the humane maxim of the law, that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty, make us warmly sympathize with him. And yet the judges who sat upon his trial, Lord Commissioner Keble,... | |
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The accused has a right to demand it, on the simple principle that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. 
