 | Monthly literary register - 1811 - 766 pages
...prisoner's fate depended upon his directions, nnd unlwpjiy also for the prisoner; as, if the judges opinion must rule the verdict, the trial by jury would be useless." Edward Bushel, a citizen of London, whose name deserves to be handed down to posterity with applause,... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 514 pages
...be to the judge, if " he at his peril must take upon him the guilt or inno" cence of the prisoner, unhappy also for the prisoner ; " for if the judge's...the verdict, the '' trial by jury would be useless." I think I tread on ground which can neither be removed or shaken, when I assert the unqualified right... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - Impeachments - 1805 - 544 pages
...be to the judge, if " he at his peril must take upon him the guilt or inno*' cence of the prisoner, unhappy also for the prisoner ; " for if the judge's opinion must rule the verdicl, the ** trial by jury would be useless." I think I tread on ground which can neither be removed... | |
 | William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...the judge himself, if the defendant's or pri^ soner's fate depended upon his directions. Unfl happy also for the prisoner ; for, if the judge's opinion must rule, the trial by jury would be useless." After a trial of near eleven hours, succeeded by a consultation of... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 466 pages
...accounts, the most advantageous plea for the defendant : it' tvould be a most unhappy case for the judge himself if the prisoner's fate depended upon...security of the jury from all Consequences in giving it, renders the contrast between criminal and civil cases striking and complete. No new trial can be granted... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - Forensic orations - 1810 - 420 pages
...accounts, the most advantageous plea for the Defendant : " It would be a most unhappy case for the " Judge himself, if the prisoner's fate depended upon...useless." My Lord, the conclusive operation of the verdict T 4 when given, and the security of the Jury from all consequences in giving it} render the contrast... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...himself, if the prisoner's fate depended upon his directions, and unhappy also for the prisoner; as, if the judge's opinion must rule the verdict, the trial by jury would he useless. Edward Bushel, a citizen of London, whose name deserves to be handed down to posterity... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...himself, if the prisoner's fate depended upon his directions, and unhappy also for the prisoner; as, if the judge's opinion must rule the verdict, the trial by jury would be useless. Edward Bushel, a citizen of London, whose name deserves to be handed down to posterity with applause,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...accounts, the most advantageous )lea for the Defendant: " It would be a most unhappy case ' for the Judge himself, if the prisoner's fate depended upon...directions :—unhappy also for the prisoner; for if the . *l Judge's opinion must rule the verdict, the trial by Jury " would be useless." Mr. Justice Blackstone,... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 416 pages
...unhappy case for the " Judge himself, if the prisoner's fate depended upon "his directions:—unhappy also for the prisoner; " for if the Judge's opinion must rule the verdict> c( the'trial by Jury would be useless." . My Lord, the conclusive operation of the verdict when given,... | |
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For, as Sir Matthew Hale well observes, (c) it would be a most unhappy case for the judge himself, if the prisoner's fate depended upon his directions; unhappy, also, for the prisoner; for if the judge's opinion must rule the verdict, the trial by jury... 
