The Monthly Law Reporter, Volum 17Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1855 |
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... guilty connection with the fact . The first witness called by the government was Elijah Stratton , a physician of Northfield , who saw the deceased once during his sickness , November 15 , 1852 , at the re- quest of the son of the ...
... guilty connection with the fact . The first witness called by the government was Elijah Stratton , a physician of Northfield , who saw the deceased once during his sickness , November 15 , 1852 , at the re- quest of the son of the ...
Side 11
... guilty when she was innocent than have such falsehoods told of her . The coun- sel were somewhat embarrassed by this fire in the rear , ' but the Court came to their support , and assured Adeline that she had very able and faithful ...
... guilty when she was innocent than have such falsehoods told of her . The coun- sel were somewhat embarrassed by this fire in the rear , ' but the Court came to their support , and assured Adeline that she had very able and faithful ...
Side 20
... guilt , were also evidence bearing upon and strengthening the evidence that he died by poison . Unless this were so , many cases might be supposed , where a murderer could escape , and he referred to the case of Dr. Webster , and other ...
... guilt , were also evidence bearing upon and strengthening the evidence that he died by poison . Unless this were so , many cases might be supposed , where a murderer could escape , and he referred to the case of Dr. Webster , and other ...
Side 22
... guilt . It is safe to say , that the prevailing senti- ment among all who heard her , was astonishment at the self ... guilty . What constitutes this crime ? ( Here the prisoner laid down the law of murder very correctly , defining it ...
... guilt . It is safe to say , that the prevailing senti- ment among all who heard her , was astonishment at the self ... guilty . What constitutes this crime ? ( Here the prisoner laid down the law of murder very correctly , defining it ...
Side 24
... request , on the inferences which they would have a right to draw from some portions of the evidence . They again retired , and shortly came in with a verdict of " Not guilty , by 24 Trial of Adeline Phelps , alius Bass .
... request , on the inferences which they would have a right to draw from some portions of the evidence . They again retired , and shortly came in with a verdict of " Not guilty , by 24 Trial of Adeline Phelps , alius Bass .
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Side 578 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Side 212 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Side 461 - Where two parties have made a contract, which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive In respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally (ie, according to the usual course of things) from such breach of contract Itself...
Side 473 - For such loss would neither have flowed naturally from the breach of this contract in the great multitude of such cases occurring under ordinary circumstances, nor were the special circumstances, which, perhaps, would have made it a reasonable and natural consequence of such breach of contract, communicated to or known by the defendants.
Side 692 - Can a medical man, conversant with the disease of insanity, who never saw the prisoner previously to the trial, but who was present during the whole trial and the examination of all the witnesses, be asked his opinion as to the state of the prisoner's mind at the time of the commission of the alleged crime, or his opinion whether the prisoner was conscious at the time of doing the act that he was acting contrary to law, or whether he was labouring under any and what delusion at the time?
Side 578 - ... it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. The mode of putting the latter part of the question to the jury on these occasions has generally been, whether the accused at the time of doing the act knew the difference between right and wrong...
Side 499 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation, or trade, of the United States, where the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons' burden, within their respective districts, as well as upon the high seas...
Side 554 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Side 490 - ... in this one, that we might escape the desolation of the storm. This treaty, like a rainbow on the edge of the cloud, marked to our eyes the space where it was raging, and afforded, at the same time, the sure prognostic of fair weather. If we reject it, the vivid colors will grow pale, it will be a baleful meteor portending tempest and war.
Side 578 - If the accused was conscious that the act was one which he ought not to do, and if that act was at the same time contrary to the law of the land, he is punishable...