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The Quarterly Review - Page 192
1818
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 2

William Blackstone - 1876 - 658 pages
...(13) Fourthly, all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. *And Sir Matthew Hale in particular (I) lays down two *r->rQ-i rules most prudent and necessary to...
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The Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 15

1895 - 1088 pages
...— 'Quod dubitas, ne feceris.' " 1 Hale, PO 24. Blackstone (1753-1765) maintains that "the law holds that it Is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." 2 BL Comin. c. 27, marg. p. 358, ad flnem. How fully the presumption of Innocence had been evolved...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 2

William Blackstone - 1884 - 724 pages
...(11) Fourthly, all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one Г*чч{Л innocent suffer. *And Sir Matthew Hale in particular (/) lays down J two rules most prudent...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 111

Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1887 - 682 pages
...the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, it is not error to refuse an offered instruction " that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." 76. 45. Forgery. — Character of InKtrummt. — An instrument to which the accused intended to forge...
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Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases, Volume 1

Henry Roscoe - 1888 - 830 pages
...Comm. 359, that all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously, for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. The following case on this subject was cited by Garrow, arguendo in R. v. Hindmarsh, 2 Leach, 571....
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The General Principles of the Law of Evidence: In Their Application to the ...

Frank Sumner Rice - 1894 - 1062 pages
...Com. 359, that all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously, for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. See 1 Eoscoe, Crim. Ev. 16. Presumptions of law are, in reality, rules of law and part of the law itself;...
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United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ...

United States. Supreme Court - 1895 - 782 pages
...danger, quod dubitas, ne faceris." 1 Hale PC 24. Blackstone (1753-1765) maintains that " the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one inno.cent suffer." 2 Bl. Com. c. 27, margin page 358, adfinem. How fully the presumption of innocence had been evolved...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...positive proof, he goes on : — ] The other maxim which deserves a similar examination is this : — "That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer." If by saying it is better be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 4

Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...positive proof, he goes on : — ] The other maxim which deserves a similar examination is this : — " That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer." If by saying it is better be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the...
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A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating ...

Harry Clay Underhill - 1898 - 1122 pages
...presumptive, ic, circumstantial evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously, for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man shall suffer. Sir Matthew Hale, in 2 Hale PC 200, lays down two rules, the first of which is never...
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