 | James Macarthur - Australia - 1837 - 660 pages
...occasion, a Coroner's Jury had acquitted the prisoner Cowan upon the evidence of that man Kerr, and his deposition after his death was given in evidence in...who heard him could bear him out in what he said, that this was not the only case which had recently been before the Court, in which there was the strongest... | |
 | James Macarthur - Australia - 1837 - 654 pages
...occasion, a Coroner's Jury had acquitted the prisoner Cowan upon the evidence of that man Kerr, and his deposition after his death was given in evidence in...acquittal. The conclusions to be drawn from such a 42 case are manifest ; and the Judge stated, that he was sorry to say, and those who heard him could... | |
 | James Macarthur - Australia - 1837 - 660 pages
...on that charge, and was the main ground of his acquittal. The conclusions to be drawn from such a 42 case are manifest ; and the Judge stated, that he...who heard him could bear him out in what he said, that this was not the only case which had recently been before the Court, in which there was the strongest... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...occasion, a Coroner's Jury had acquitted the prisoner Cowan upon the evidence of that man Kerr, and his deposition after his death was given in evidence in this Court in favour of the same prisoner, \rhen Cowan was subsequently tried before one of the other Judges on that charge, and was the main... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1838 - 440 pages
...occasion a coroner's jury had acquitted the prisoner, Cowan, upon the evidence of that man Kerr; and his deposition after his death was given in evidence in...of the same prisoner, when Cowan was subsequently fried before one of the other judges on that charge, and was the main ground of his acquittal. The... | |
 | Sir William Molesworth - Crime - 1840 - 146 pages
...occasion a coroner's jury had acquitted the prisoner, Cowan, upon the evidence of that man Kerr; and his deposition after his death was given in evidence in...charge, and was the main ground of his acquittal." The moral effects of Transportation on the state of society in Van Diemen's Land are described by two gentlemen... | |
 | Richard Whately - Penal colonies - 1840 - 128 pages
...embodying in itself a picture of those evils with which the colony is visited. (The case is then stated.) " The conclusions to be drawn from such a case are manifest;...who heard him could bear him out in what he said, that this was not the only case which had recently been before that court, in which there was the strongest... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 398 pages
...embodying in itself a picture of those evils with which the colony is visited. (The case is then stated.) " The conclusions to be drawn from such a case are manifest...who heard him could bear him out in what he said, that this was not the only case which had recently been before that court, in which there was the strongest... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 396 pages
...embodying in itself a picture of those evils with which the colony is visited. (The case is then stated.) " The conclusions to be drawn from such a case are manifest;...he was sorry to say, and those who heard him could hear him out in what he said, that this was not the only case which had recently been before that court,... | |
 | Sir William Molesworth - Great Britain - 1903 - 564 pages
...occasion a coroner's jury had acquitted the prisoner, Cowan, upon the evidence of that man Kerr ; and his deposition after his death was given in evidence in...charge, and was the main ground of his acquittal." The moral effects of transportation on the state of society in Van Diemen's Land are described by two gentlemen... | |
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... deserves notice as an instance of retributive justice, as well as showing the character of this case, that another dead man was found in the same place within three months before, — and upon that occasion, a Coroner's Jury had acquitted the prisoner... 
