 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 544 sivua
...enough to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel for the respondent have stremiousiy urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case... | |
 | Samuel Harrison Smith, Thomas Lloyd - 1805 - 514 sivua
...enough to grant me last evening. It is the first and most sacred principle in our criminal code that a man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. The counsel fpr the respondent have strenuously urged this principle, and wish it to govern the case... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 444 sivua
...sheets, as promiscuously as comfits over a wedding cake. But as, according to the maxim of the law, every man is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty, we shall select some passages, as usual. " An ambiguity is properly latent in the sense of the law,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 sivua
...promiscuously as comfits over a wedding cake. But as, according to the maxim of the law, every mail is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty, we shall select some passages, as usual. " An ambiguity is properly latent in the sense of the law,... | |
 | Andrew McKinley, John Dow - 1818 - 568 sivua
...to be in fevour of the prisoner. Where there is any doubt, it operates in favour of the pannel. He is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; and that presumption operates upon every doubtful case. IndubiisberrigniorapreeIerendamml. And this maxim... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 sivua
...our country ; and so great is the benignity of the laws, that the accused in our Courts of Justice is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. Imagine then the pungency of my regret when I found myself condemned without evidence, and debarred... | |
 | 1826 - 810 sivua
...rules, to be in favour of the prisoner. Where there is any doubt, it operates in favour of the panel. He is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty ; and that presumption operates upon every doubtful case. In iiubtis benigiuora praferenda unit. And (his... | |
 | North Ludlow Beamish - 1829 - 314 sivua
...observation which I have made should induce you to forget that ancient and wholesome maxim of our law, that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. At the same time, I have no hesitation in repeating that if my statement is borne out by the evidence,... | |
 | William Mudford - 1840 - 340 sivua
...cognizance of it by the oral testimony of the witnesses; on the contrary, the law presumes every man to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty, and it is my duty to apprize you that no advantage can result from persisting in this plea ; for supposing... | |
 | the brithish and foreign lmedical review - 1845 - 594 sivua
...been carefully kept out of the way,) so long you are to bow down and worship it. By the English law, every man is presumed to be innocent, until he is proved to be guilty. In Dr. Wigan's code of logic, everything is true, which has not been proved to be false. Now we shall... | |
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The accused has a right to demand it, on the simple principle that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty. 
