 | Thomas Johnson Michie - 1914 - 832 페이지
...Innocent Man Be Punished." — The tendency ol a charge, unexplained, that "it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape. 'than that one innocent man should be punished," is to mislead; and it is not error to refuse to charge it. Lowe v. State, 88 Ala. 8, 7 So. 97; Ward... | |
 | David Karsner - 1919 - 184 페이지
...slaughter or to refuse to murder at all. If it's better in the individual law, and in the individual life, that twenty guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be persecuted, so it's better in war that twenty guilty prime ministers should go free than that the innocent,... | |
 | 1878 - 542 페이지
...Judge Plckens, of Alabama, was once asked 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... | |
 | 1914 - 1096 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 United States to-day is lawlessness and the contempt... | |
 | State Bar Association of Wisconsin - 1912 - 468 페이지
...criminal cases so far as the rights of the defendant are concerned the maxim "That it is better that 99 guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished," has always prevailed. I confess to a conviction that that is still a good old maxim and embodies a... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1906 - 194 페이지
...overworks that legal proverb, of doubtful authority, which declares that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished, forgetting that it was first invoked to protect the innocent and not to shield the guilty. He sometimes... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - 1890 - 776 페이지
...Jordan v. State, 81 Ala. 20. It can not be said that the trite expression, it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished, is an established maxim of the law. The law recognizes no such comparison of numbers. Its sole object... | |
 | David J. Eicher - 2007 - 376 페이지
...got nothing. Even some of Davis's enemies tried to assist. "The maxim that it is better one hundred guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished, will not do for a time of war," said Wigfall. "In times like these, it is better that one hundred innocent... | |
 | 1884 - 652 페이지
...determine what is a reasonable doubt ; and, to crown all, they are instructed that it is better that ten guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished. These rules and maxims, devised centuries ago by merciful judges, then met the ends of justice, since,... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2005 - 824 페이지
...the whole fight of traditional liberalism was fought and won. But after their power that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should be punished. Our institutions are founded upon the opposite view. If a man is accused, for example, of a murder,... | |
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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... 
