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... witnesses . While the jury trial was being developed in England , the custom of giving this kind of assistance came as a result of centuries of experience , and it still prevails in the English courts . If the court is shorn here of its ...
... witnesses . While the jury trial was being developed in England , the custom of giving this kind of assistance came as a result of centuries of experience , and it still prevails in the English courts . If the court is shorn here of its ...
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... witnesses cannot withstand the expression by a judge of a contrary view , it merely argues that a jury is a very irresolute body , — a conclusion refuted by long experience . Juries have intelligence enough to know whether their domain ...
... witnesses cannot withstand the expression by a judge of a contrary view , it merely argues that a jury is a very irresolute body , — a conclusion refuted by long experience . Juries have intelligence enough to know whether their domain ...
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... witness all too often in our criminal courts . But it cannot be denied that the summary administra- tion of criminal justice in England would evoke criti- cism in this country as giving too little weight to the presumption of innocence ...
... witness all too often in our criminal courts . But it cannot be denied that the summary administra- tion of criminal justice in England would evoke criti- cism in this country as giving too little weight to the presumption of innocence ...
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... witnesses who should simply testify as to facts are interrogated as to their opinion of their or other people's conduct ; some- times the past history of parties and even of independent witnesses is made the subject of searching ...
... witnesses who should simply testify as to facts are interrogated as to their opinion of their or other people's conduct ; some- times the past history of parties and even of independent witnesses is made the subject of searching ...
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... witnesses a self - possession which aids them in testifying . But too frequent indulgence in pleasantries is hardly con- sonant with proper decorum , and especially since it is a very poor judicial sally to which the gravest court ...
... witnesses a self - possession which aids them in testifying . But too frequent indulgence in pleasantries is hardly con- sonant with proper decorum , and especially since it is a very poor judicial sally to which the gravest court ...
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Page 63 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of the world: All things in heaven and in earth do her homage,—the very least as feeling her care and the greatest as not exempted from her power;—both angels and men, and creatures of what condition
Page 63 - earth do her homage,—the very least as feeling her care and the greatest as not exempted from her power;—both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever —though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform
Page 210 - repaying fines that it imposed. Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, 'Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.' Of course I am speaking only of
Page 63 - angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever —though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform concert,—admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 205 - The Statute of 1917, in Sec. 4, punishes conspiracies to obstruct as well as actual obstruction. If the act (speaking, or circulating a paper), its tendency and the intent with which it is done are the same, we perceive no ground for saying that success alone warrants making the act a crime.
Page 161 - argument in open court, and not by any outside influence, whether of private talk or public print. What is true with reference to a jury is true also with reference to a court. Cases like the present are more likely to arise, no doubt, when there is a jury and the publication may
Page 9 - This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire which has its worn-out lunatics in every madhouse, and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every
Page 9 - acquaintance; which gives to moneyed might the means abundantly of wearing out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart that there is not an honorable man among its practitioners who would not give, who does not often give the
Page 11 - It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. How much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast when he shall have to say that he found law dear and left it cheap; found it a sealed book,
Page 210 - I wholly disagree with the argument of the Government that the First Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force. History seems to me against the notion. I had conceived that the United States through many years had shown its repentance for the Sedition Act of 1798,