Trial of Samuel Chase: An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Impeached by the House of Representatives, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Before the Senate of the United States, Volum 2S. H. Smith, 1805 |
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Side 16
... never intended to lay the judiciary thus prostrate at the feet of the House of Representatives , the slaves of their will , the victims of their caprice . The judiciary must be protected from prejudice and varying opinion , or it is not ...
... never intended to lay the judiciary thus prostrate at the feet of the House of Representatives , the slaves of their will , the victims of their caprice . The judiciary must be protected from prejudice and varying opinion , or it is not ...
Side 18
... never be very uncomfortable or unsafe - But if a judge is forever to be exposed to prosecutions and impeachments for his official conduct on the mere suggestions of caprice , and to be condemned by the mere voice of prejudice , under ...
... never be very uncomfortable or unsafe - But if a judge is forever to be exposed to prosecutions and impeachments for his official conduct on the mere suggestions of caprice , and to be condemned by the mere voice of prejudice , under ...
Side 26
... never was delivered to the jury or to any other person , and never could produce any prejudice or injury to John Fries - Nor indeed was it ever intended to come to the knowledge of the jury , until they had complete- ly heard the ...
... never was delivered to the jury or to any other person , and never could produce any prejudice or injury to John Fries - Nor indeed was it ever intended to come to the knowledge of the jury , until they had complete- ly heard the ...
Side 37
... never heard of precisely the same thing before . It was a novelty that counsel should desert their cause in the abrupt manner in which it was then done . But I presume it will not be pretended that these things were wrong merely because ...
... never heard of precisely the same thing before . It was a novelty that counsel should desert their cause in the abrupt manner in which it was then done . But I presume it will not be pretended that these things were wrong merely because ...
Side 44
... never before heard of overt acts in 1 an indictment for murder . The general charge of the offence is laid in legal and general terms , but there is no specification of the particular facts and circumstances by which the charge is to be ...
... never before heard of overt acts in 1 an indictment for murder . The general charge of the offence is laid in legal and general terms , but there is no specification of the particular facts and circumstances by which the charge is to be ...
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Side 483 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Side 107 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Side 228 - ... according as the very right of the cause and matter in law shall appear unto them, without regarding any imperfection, omission...
Side 121 - ... the usual mode of process against offenders in such State, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law has cognizance of the offense.
Side 121 - States, to regulate the practice of the said courts respectively, as shall be fit and necessary for the advancement of justice, and especially to that end to prevent delays in proceedings.
Side 134 - A crime, or misdemeanor, is an act committed or omitted in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. This general definition comprehends both crimes and misdemeanors ; which, properly speaking, are mere synonymous terms : though in common usage, the word
Side 111 - The Chief Justice, in answer to the motion of the Attorney General, made yesterday, informs him and the bar, that this court consider the practice of the courts of king's bench, and of chancery, in England, as affording outlines for the practice of this court; and that they will, from time to time, make such alterations therein as circumstances may render necessary.
Side 108 - And upon all arrests in criminal cases, bail shall be admitted, except where the punishment may be death, in which cases it shall not be admitted but by the Supreme or a circuit court, or by a justice of the supreme court, or a judge of a district court, who shall exercise their discretion therein, regarding the nature and circumstances of the offence, and of the evidence, and the usages of law.
Side 233 - And if such commitment of the offender, or the witnesses shall be in a district other than that in which the offence is to be tried, it shall be the duty of the judge of that district where the delinquent is imprisoned, seasonably to issue, and of the marshal of the same district to execute, a warrant for the removal of the offender, and the witnesses or either of them, as the case may be, to the district in- which the trial is to be had.
Side 387 - Judge for any reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground of impeachment, may be removed by the governor on the address of two thirds of each branch of the legislature.