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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,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 192
1818
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A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, Volume 1

William Oldnall Russell - 1843 - 1086 pages
...and ab* mg,shr*j very great judge says, " I would never convict any person of murder Orath(. deceased or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least has been found. the body be found dead." (y) But this rule, it seems, must be taken with some qualifications...
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A Treatise on Presumptions of Law and Fact: With the Theory and Rules of ...

William Mawdesley Best - 1845 - 232 pages
...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...proved to be done, or, at least, the body found dead :"(¿>) and Mr. Starkie states it to be an established rule, that, upon charges of homicide, the accused...
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Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown, Volume 2

Sir Matthew Hale - 1847 - 764 pages
...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 body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap. 104. p. 232. a Warwickshire case.(°-) Another that happened...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 55

Alabama. Supreme Court - 1878 - 738 pages
...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...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." . Mr. Wills, in his work on Circumstantial Evidence, says : " It may be doubted whether justice and...
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A Treatise on the Principles of Evidence and Practice as to Proofs in Courts ...

William Mawdesley Best - 1854 - 930 pages
...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...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead (r)." And in Starkie on Evidence (*), it is stated to be " an established rule, upon charges of homicide,...
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Reports of Cases at Law Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ..., Volume 7

North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - 1860 - 694 pages
...learned author says, "I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the facts were proved to be done, or, at least, the body found dead." Lord STOWELL, in pronouncing his celebrated judgment in Evans v. Evans, 1 Hagg. Con. Rep. 105, said...
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Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence

Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - 1855 - 858 pages
...first degree. B. — CORPUS DELICTI.(Z) § 988. I. THAT A DEATH TOOK PLACE. " I would never," said Lord Hale, " convict any person of murder or manslaughter,...were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead."(7n) The civilians are no less emphatic. " Diligenter cavendum cst judici, ne suppliciump rsecipitet,...
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The Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 1

1857 - 600 pages
...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...proved to be done, or at least the body found dead." The corpus delicti is always made up of these two points — (1.) The general facts which form the...
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Reports of Decisions in Criminal Cases Made at Term, at Chambers and in the ...

Amasa Junius Parker - 1858 - 734 pages
...competency of such evidence to establish the corpus delicti in such a case. Lord Hale said : " I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the dead body found, for the sake of two cases," which he states, of wrong convictions, where the body...
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The Law of Evidence: Applicable to the Courts of the East India Company ...

John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...felony was committed of these goods. " I would never convict any person of murderer manslaughter, unlesa the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body be found dead, for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Cote's PC cap, 104, p. 222, a Warwickthire...
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