 I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.  The Quarterly Review - Page 1921818Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1875 - 866 pages
...how he came by them, unless there were due proof made that a felony had been committed. I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead. " 1 Whart. Crim. Law, §§ 745, 746. A writer of standard excellence has said: It may be doubted whether... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1875 - 856 pages
...by them, unless there were due proof made that a felony was committed of these goods. I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless...were , proved to be done, or at least, the body found dead."2 Equally emphatic was the language of another great judge : " To take presumptions, in order... | |
 | 1875 - 462 pages
...ed.), 439. Lord Hale said he would never convict any person of murder or manslanghter unless the act were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead. 2 Hale's PC 290. This is approved by Blackstone, 4 Com. 358; by Walworth, J., 1 Park. Cr. 609; by Baron... | |
 | New Zealand - 1877 - 428 pages
...came by them, unless there were due proof that a felony was committed of these goods. I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...proved to be done, or, at least, the body found dead.' And in Starkie on Evidence (1 Stark. Evid., 4th edit., 862), it is stated to be 'an established rule,... | |
 | Sir William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 900 pages
...due proof made that a felony was committed of these goods. 2. That a person should never be convicted of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead, (ti) SEC. II. The best possible Evidence must be produced. It is a general rule that you must give... | |
 | William Oldnall Russell - 1877 - 778 pages
...proof made that a felony was >• comtnitted of these goods. 2. That a person should never be convicted of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead.(z) Sec. II. — The best possible Evidence must be produced. IT is a general rule that you must... | |
 | Theodore Thring, Charles Edwin Gifford - 1877 - 584 pages
...Taylor, Ev. 199. that a felony was committed of these goods. 2. That a person should never be convicted of murder, or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead.1 SECTION III. Of Hearsay Evidence. The general rule is, that hearsay evidence of a fact is not... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 912 pages
...there was due proof made that a felony had been committed. I would never conMatthews v. Suite. vict any person of murder, or manslaughter, unless the...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." Mr. Wills, in his work on Circumstantial Evidence, says : "It may be doubted whether justice and policy... | |
 | California - 1881 - 820 pages
...from the effect of a wound; 2. That this wound was unlawfully inflicted. "I would never," says Lord Hale, "convict any person of murder or manslaughter,...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." 2 Hale PC 290. The death should be distinctly proved, cither by direct evidence of the fact, as by... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - 1886 - 628 pages
...constituent. De Corpore interfecti necesse est ut constat." Or, as Lord Hale said, " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless...proved to be done, or, at least, the body found dead," a rule which, so far as I :\m aware, has been invariably accepted since. In a very recent case indeed... | |
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