...strict caution Is given by Lord Hale, with regard to the evidence for the prosecution in case of rape: "An accusation easily to be' made, and hard to be...defended by the party accused, though ever so innocent." 1 Hale, 635. [3] It Is a well-settled legal rule that the cridtbility of a witness Is wholly within...

...instruction that "it was the settled law of this state that rape is an accusation easily to be made, hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, though ever so innocent," was proper. [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Rape, Dec. Dig. § 59.*] 5. CRIMINAL LAW (5 308*)—...

...it has long been recognized that the charge of taking indecent liberties with a child is, like rape, "an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent." 1 Hale's Pleas of the Crown 634. As stated by the Illinois Supreme Court in...

...rules. Three centuries ago the English Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale warned that rape is a charge "easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent." i Matthew Hale, The History of the Pleas of the Crown 635 (1736). Hale's observation...

...treated with particular care. For sexual offences the proposition can be traced at least to Hale36 that: It is an accusation easily to be made and hard...proved; and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent. " Law Com No 202 (see n 2 above) para 2.5ff * Pleas of the Crown I 635 As for...

...sanction in the story of Potiphar's wife (Gen. 39). Seventeenth-century jurist Matthew Hale wrote: "Rape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent."43 Statistically, however, this myth is hard to defend. As with battering, as few...

...of contriving false charges of sexual offenses by men. (John Henry Wigmore. 1904, pp. 736-737) Rape is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...harder to be defended by the party accused, though never so innocent." (Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale, 17th-century England, quoted by Hechler, 1988,...

...or else be corroborated; and others, remembering the admonition of Lord Chief Justice Hale that rape "is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be...proved; and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent,"14 reverse convictions of sex crimes regularly when there is no corroboration...

...genders. The contention of English legal commentator Lord Hale that the charge of rape "is easily made, hard to be proved and harder to be defended by the party accused, notwithstanding his innocence" captured the tone of most southern appellate opinions in the nineteenth...

...proposition can be traced at least to Hale 36 that: It is an accusation easily to be made and bard to be proved; and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho' never so innocent. " Law Com No 202 (see n 2 above) para 2.5ff 36 Pleas of the Crown I 635 As...