 | Marshall Brown - 1899 - 602 페이지
...on both of us, ain't it, judge?" Crier: " Order in the court." " It is better that ninety and nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished." A lawyer once asked the late Judge Perkins, of Alabama, to charge the jury that "it is better that... | |
 | Harry Pratt Judson - 1900 - 356 페이지
...pains are taken for the protection of persons accused of crime because it is thought better that many guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished. Moreover, the accused person is presumed to be innocent vintil he is proven guilty. Therefore, when... | |
 | 1902 - 548 페이지
...asked the late Judge Pickens, of Alabama, to charge the jury that "it is better that ninety and nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished." "Yes," said the witty judge, "I will give that charge; but, in the opinion of the court the ninety... | |
 | 1902 - 540 페이지
...asked the late Judge Pickens of Alabama to charge the jury that "it is better that ninety and nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished." "Yes," said the witty judge, "I will give that charge ; but, in the opinion of the court, the ninety... | |
 | B. A. Milburn - 1904 - 342 페이지
...96 111. App. 622. 12. It is not an established maxim of the law that " it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished." Lowe v. State, 88 Ala. 8, 7 So. Rep. 97. 13. "Those who put their own shoulders to the wheel without... | |
 | William Howard Taft - 1906 - 132 페이지
...consider or properly to decide. The emotional and untrue doctrine that it is better that ninetynine guilty men should escape than that one inno-cent man should be punished has done much to make our criminal trials a farce. This has come about through popular demand, without... | |
 | William Howard Taft - 1906 - 132 페이지
...Consider or properly to decide. The emotional ,• and untrue doctrine that it is better that ninety\ nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished has done much to make our criminal trials a farce. This has come about through popular demand, without... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1912 - 508 페이지
...most evident reasons, the merciful maxim of the law, which says that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished, is with us reversed, and that hi Masonry it is belter that ninety and nine true men should be turned... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - 1912 - 534 페이지
...most evident reasons, tl.ut merciful maxim of the law, which says that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished, is with us reversed; so that in Masonry it is better that ninety and nine true men should be turned... | |
 | 1914 - 1148 페이지
...victim toward what we call our free institutions can only be imagined. We do not believe in the dictum that it is better that twenty guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer ; one of the greatest social evils of the I'nited States to-day is lawlessness and the contempt... | |
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Remember, that for the wisest and most evident reasons, the merciful maxim of the law, which says that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should be punished... 
