 | George Payne R. James - 1849 - 406 sider
...evidence against him, and he likewise was pronounced guilty of high treason. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he replied at first, " Nothing !" but then added, " Non eadem omnibus decora. The house of the Wiltons... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 408 sider
...addressing the prisoner, informed him of the verdict of the jury, and asked him if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. With the manner of a man who scarcely knew where he was, and whether all he saw and heard ought not... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 620 sider
...Justice Abbot, who was suddenly taken ill, a man eapitally convicted, being asked if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, exclaimed, " Yes ; I have been tried bi-fore a Journeyman Judge." • CHAP. The cruel sentence passed... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 696 sider
...us is safe 9" — At the same assizes, a man convicted of murdering his wife being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, gave a very moving account of his wife's misconduct, and the provocation he had received from her.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 530 sider
...us is safe?'- — At the same assizes, a man convicted of murdering his wife being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, gave a very moving account of his wife's misconduct, and the provocation he had received from her.... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 334 sider
...murder of the overseer, after which he was asked, with a sort of mock solemnity, if he had anything to say why sentence of death, should not be passed upon him. "Go on," said the indignant culprit; "hang me, kill me, do your will. I was held a slave for the best... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 272 sider
...murder of the overseer, after which he was asked, with a sort of mock solemnity, if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. "Go on." said the indignant culprit ; " hang me. kill me, do your will ! I was held a slave for the... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 396 sider
...sufficiently recovered to receive the sentence of the Court, and was called upon in the usual form to say " Why Sentence of Death should not be passed upon him according to Law ? " He began by apologising for the interruption he had given to the business of the... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 336 sider
...murder of the overseer, after which he was asked, with a sort of mock solemnity, if lie had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. "Go on," said the indignant culprit; "hang me, kill me, do your will. I was held a slave for the best... | |
 | William Knighton - 1854 - 450 sider
...question much in the same tone as the judge who asks the prisoner at the bar, whether he has anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. " I don't know whether he ever said it or not," replied Massey, " I never asked him any questions about... | |
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The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. 
