 | Thomas Leach - Criminal law - 1815 - 578 pages
...some of them, and was then alive. He cited the passage in 2 Hale, PC 290, where his Lordship says, " 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" and he mentioned a remarkable case which had happened before... | |
 | Edward Christian - Criminal law - 1820 - 148 pages
...Justice Hale has related some such cases which had existed jn his time: and he observes upon them, " 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" which he relates, where the prisoner... | |
 | William Hough - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1834 - 398 pages
...Harri»on, who was afterwards discovered alive. State Trialt, vol. 14. 1312. Sir Matthew Hale says, "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found." Starlie, vol. ip 33. If a bodv be thrown overboard, it may not... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1839 - 1324 pages
...distinguishes him among the great criminal lawyers of England, says, (2 Hale, 290.) " I never would convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved, or at least the body found," and he cites two cases of persons convicted on circumstantial evidence,... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Evidence, Criminal - 1840 - 908 pages
...by them, unless (here was due proof made that a felony was committed of these goods." And again, " 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." 2 Hale, 290. So it is said by Sir William Blackslonc, 4... | |
 | 1843 - 604 pages
...innocence or safety of any individual. " I would never," observes the eminent lawyer last quoted, " convict any person of murder, or manslaughter, unless the fact •were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." Burnet, one of the greatest of our Scold) criminal law authorities,... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 528 pages
...nobly distinguishes him among the great criminal lawyers of England, says (2 Hale, 290) " I never would convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved, or at letut the body found," and he cites two cases of persons convicted on circumstantial evidence,... | |
 | William Mawdesley Best - Evidence, Circumstantial - 1845 - 232 pages
...how he came by them, unless there were due proof made, that a felony was committed of those goods. 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 :"(¿>) and Mr. Starkie states it to be an established rule,... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Pleas of the crown - 1847 - 760 pages
...how he came 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 the fact were proved to be done, or at least tl»e body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentjoned in my lord... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 738 pages
...give an account how he came by them, unless there was due proof made that a felony had been committed. 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." . Mr. Wills, in his work on Circumstantial Evidence, says... | |
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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. 
