American Law Review, Volume 8Little, Brown and Company, 1874 - Law |
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Page 9
Under every government, and in every generation, occasions arise when men
are charged with crime and put upon trial, against whom violent popular
prejudice is excited. That of the demented negro Freeman in New York, whom Mr
. Seward ...
Under every government, and in every generation, occasions arise when men
are charged with crime and put upon trial, against whom violent popular
prejudice is excited. That of the demented negro Freeman in New York, whom Mr
. Seward ...
Page 48
So in 1817, on a murder trial in Massachusetts, Parker, C. J., told the jury that "
when a homicide is committed, the law implies malice. It is incumbent on the
person who committed it to prove the absence of malice by evidence produced in
his ...
So in 1817, on a murder trial in Massachusetts, Parker, C. J., told the jury that "
when a homicide is committed, the law implies malice. It is incumbent on the
person who committed it to prove the absence of malice by evidence produced in
his ...
Page 52
The doctrine of the charge, sustained by the majority of the court in this case, was
subsequently relied upon by the government in the same court in the celebrated
Webster trial. The court, however, in the charge to the jury, again stated the rule ...
The doctrine of the charge, sustained by the majority of the court in this case, was
subsequently relied upon by the government in the same court in the celebrated
Webster trial. The court, however, in the charge to the jury, again stated the rule ...
Page 53
York the circumstances attending the killing were more or less fully brought out
on the trial, and the rule in question seems often to have been laid down as a sort
of preliminary, fundamental doctrine of the law of homicide, and applicable in all
...
York the circumstances attending the killing were more or less fully brought out
on the trial, and the rule in question seems often to have been laid down as a sort
of preliminary, fundamental doctrine of the law of homicide, and applicable in all
...
Page 67
In a trial on an indictment for murder therefore, after these statutes, in which the
prisoner might be acquitted of the murder, but in which, if the necessary facts
came out on the trial, he might be convicted of manslaughter, it was not illogical
for ...
In a trial on an indictment for murder therefore, after these statutes, in which the
prisoner might be acquitted of the murder, but in which, if the necessary facts
came out on the trial, he might be convicted of manslaughter, it was not illogical
for ...
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