 It is true that rape is a most detestable crime, and therefore ought severely and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party...  The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer - Side 259av Richard Burn - 1831Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1894 - 786 sider
...of each case. State v. Niles, 47 Vt. 82. Lord Hale said that this accusation is easily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence. It is stated in all the works upon criminal law that the credibility... | |
 | Arthur Percival Will - 1896 - 580 sider
...author from whom we have just quoted has said, that " it is an accusation easily to be made, and hardly to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." 2 Such cases, he further observes, are not uncommon, and he has related the particulars of two cases,... | |
 | 1905 - 620 sider
...and impartially to be punished with death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation ea3ily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent. I shall never forget a trial before myself of a rape in the county of Sussex,' etc. : pp. 634 and 635.... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1900 - 1030 sider
...This was natural. But it must not be forgotten that in this class of cases the "accusation was easy to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be...defended by the party accused, though never so innocent," coming as it did from a child of six years, with no other witnesses to the act. It was proper that... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1900 - 1040 sider
...This was natural. But it must not be forgotten that in this class of cases the "accusation was easy to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never BO innocent," coming as it did from a child of six years, with no other witnesses to the act. It was... | |
 | 1900 - 1070 sider
...crime of rape, — on account of the fact, as Lord Hale puts It, "that this accusation is easily made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence," — the defendant "is let in, In his defense, to some privileges which... | |
 | John Dawson Mayne - 1904 - 1186 sider
...accusation which requires to be watched with more caution than a charge of rape. As Lord Hale says, " It is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to...by the party accused, though never so innocent." He mentions a case which was tried before himself, in which a wealthy old man of about sixty-three was... | |
 | 1908 - 1354 sider
...the conviction of the defendant. The admonition of Lord Hale that "It must be remembered that this is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to he defended by the party accused, though never so innocent," must be heeded. While It is the law of... | |
 | 1912 - 1294 sider
...courts. He said : "It must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made and hard to he proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." 1 Hale PC 635. The statement is peculiarly applicable here, since the complaining witness is white... | |
 | 1917 - 1336 sider
...detestable' crime, and therefore severely to be punished, \yith death; but it must be remembered that it is an accusation easily to be made, and hard to...to be defended by the party accused, though never во innocent.' " He mentions some instances, and comments on them, and continues: "I only mention... | |
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