| English literature - 1819 - 950 pages
...bow-stealing? The rep1}1 (if one convicted of the latter otfenci1 u »ell knoun; when asked by the jndgp «hat he had to say, why the sentence of the law should not be passed on him. be said, Hint he thought it hard he slimii I be banged fur only stealing a horse. "... | |
| Crime - 1834 - 370 pages
...service to Kidd. Our pirate was found guilty of both indictments. When he was asked why sentence of death should not be pronounced against him, he replied, " that he had nothing to say, but that perjured wicked people had sworn against him." When sentence was pronounced, he exclaimed... | |
| Crime - 1836 - 564 pages
...each and all of you guilty of a jinost foul and aggravated murder. Have you or cither of you any fhing to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against you, in pursuance of your conviction for this offence 1 The feelings and emotions with which I enter... | |
| Benjamin Ingersol Lane - Future punishment - 1844 - 340 pages
...reward, and all its reward. If a criminal, about to be sentenced to death for the crime of murder, were asked what he had to say why the sentence of the law should not pass, would it avail him to say, that he had already suffered sufficiently for his crime, — that... | |
| Linus Wilson Miller - Canada - 1846 - 400 pages
...other twelve, who were tried as subjects of the crown. They were separately asked if they had any thing to say, why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against them. In the case of Mr. Wait, his counsel moved that the verdict be set aside, on the ground that... | |
| William Henry Seward - Insanity - 1846 - 64 pages
...declare him guilty. When the Judge shall proceed to the last fatal cereinony, and demand what he has to say why the Sentence of the Law should not be pronounced upon him, although there should not be an unmoistened eye in this vast assembly, and the stern voice... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...affirmatively that, before sentence was pronounced, the prisoner had been asked if he had any thing to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against him. It had been previously declared this was not an error in the record — that unless the contrary was... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 806 pages
...v. The State, 39 Ala. 684. In the present case the record istates that the prisoner " said nothing" why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against him ; leaving the inference irresistible that he was asked if he had anything to say why this should not... | |
| William Freeman, Benjamin Franklin Hall - Insanity (Law) - 1848 - 510 pages
...declare him guilty. When* the Judge shall proceed to the last fatal ceremony, and demand what he has to say why the Sentence of the Law should not be pronounced upon him, although there should not be an unmoistened eye in this vast assembly, and the stern voice... | |
| American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...court, but, with no tangible defence, their efforts were merely thrown away. Upon being asked what she had to say why the sentence of the law should not be carried into effect, she repeated her previous statement — that the notes had been given her to change... | |
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