The Bar: West Virginia, Volume 14West Virginia Bar Association., 1907 |
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... judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it . In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge , but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which ...
... judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it . In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge , but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which ...
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... judge's power is very great in shortening trials , but it is admitted on all sides that full justice is done to the prisoner on the whole . What is the cause for the increase of crime here is difficult to de- termine . Some persons have ...
... judge's power is very great in shortening trials , but it is admitted on all sides that full justice is done to the prisoner on the whole . What is the cause for the increase of crime here is difficult to de- termine . Some persons have ...
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... judge did not hesitate to take a hand when he thought some matter of evidence was not being made clear to the jury . Everything was for the jury . We , the spec- tators , seemed to be ignored - the gallery had no rights . When a plan of ...
... judge did not hesitate to take a hand when he thought some matter of evidence was not being made clear to the jury . Everything was for the jury . We , the spec- tators , seemed to be ignored - the gallery had no rights . When a plan of ...
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... judge in his charge said tersely that drunkenness was no defense . The jury without leaving their seats , returned a ver- dict of murder , and the man was sentenced to be hanged . While the judge was delivering sentence the white widow ...
... judge in his charge said tersely that drunkenness was no defense . The jury without leaving their seats , returned a ver- dict of murder , and the man was sentenced to be hanged . While the judge was delivering sentence the white widow ...
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... judge's charge . His lordship said briefly that from the evidence it was apparent that the prisoner had killed the deceased , and that he saw no option for the jury but to return a verdict of murder . The twelve grim men in the jury box ...
... judge's charge . His lordship said briefly that from the evidence it was apparent that the prisoner had killed the deceased , and that he saw no option for the jury but to return a verdict of murder . The twelve grim men in the jury box ...
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Page 2 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 13 - To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Page 13 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 20 - ... the power over commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, is vested in congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States.
Page 18 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Page 29 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 26 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
Page 19 - I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.
Page 26 - Territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia, or in .restraint of trade or commerce between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory or territories and any State or states or the District of Columbia, or with foreign nations, or between the District of Columbia and any State or states or foreign nations, is hereby declared illegal.