United States Criminal History: Being a True Account of the Most Horrid Murders, Piracies, High-way Robberies, &c.,/ Together with the Lives, Trials, Confessions and Executions of the Criminals. Comp. from the Criminal Records of the Countries by P. R. HamblinMason & De Puy, printers, 1836 - 550 páginas |
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Página 349 - When committed upon the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State...
Página 375 - tis too horrible. The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 294 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Página 328 - It is better that ten guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer.
Página 293 - Esq., in contempt of the people of the State of New York, In open violation of the laws of the said State, to the evil example of all others in like case offending, and against the peace of the people of the State of New York, and their dignity.
Página 297 - ... greater than the force of that on which they depend; and if this fails they all fall to the ground. But when the proofs are distinct and independent of each other, the probability of the fact increases in proportion to the number of the proofs; for the falsehood of one, does not diminish the veracity of another.
Página 296 - It is obvious therefore, that a presumption is more or less likely to be true, according as it is more or less probable, that the circumstances would not have existed, unless the fact, which is inferred from them, had also existed; and that a presumption can only be relied on, until the contrary is actually proved.
Página 192 - And the question made at the bar is whether insanity whose remote cause is habitual drunkenness, is or is not an excuse in a Court of Law for a homicide committed by the party, while so insane, but not at the time intoxicated or under the influence of liquor. .We are clearly of opinion that insanity is a competent excuse in such a case. In general, insanity is an excuse for the commission of any crime, because the party has not the possession of his reason which includes responsibility.
Página 193 - Many species of insanity arise, remotely, from what, in a moral view, is a criminal neglect or fault of the party ; as from religious melancholy, undue exposure, extravagant pride, ambition, etc. Yet such insanity has always been deemed a sufficient excuse for any crime done under its influence.
Página 539 - Tho', damn ye, you are a sneaking Puppy, and so are all those who will submit to be governed by Laws which rich Men have made for their own Security, for the cowardly Whelps have not the Courage otherwise to defend what they get by their Knavery...