 | Louisiana. Supreme Court, Merritt M. Robinson - 1847 - 724 pages
...they interfere with any of the chances of life, in favor of the prisoner; but after all, they have the right to order the discharge, and the security...responsibility of the judges, under their oaths of office." Wherefore it is ordered that this case be remanded, that a venire de novo be awarded, and that the... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1852 - 328 pages
...they interfere with any of the chances of life, in favor of the prisoner ; but after all, they have the right to order the discharge, and the security...responsibility of the judges, under their oaths of office." Wherefore it is ordered that this case be remanded, that a venire de novo be awarded, and that the... | |
 | 1892 - 582 pages
...how they interfere with any of the chances of life in favor of the prisoner. Bnt after all they have the right to order the discharge ; and the security which the public have for the faithfnl, sound and conscientious exercise of this discretion rests, in this as in other cases, upon... | |
 | 1872 - 954 pages
...they interfere with any of the chances of life in favor of the prisoner. But, after all, they have the right to order the discharge ; and the security...responsibility of the judges under their oaths of office." United States v. Perez, 9 Wheat. 579. As to the objection that the party is protected by the constitution... | |
 | Charles Patrick Daly - 1876 - 626 pages
...consideration, there is a manifest necessity for, the act, and the ends of justice would otherwise be defeated." "And the security which the public have for the faithful,...upon the responsibility of the judges under their oath of office." Instead of availing themselves of any representation to the court of any such alleged... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 884 pages
...court had the right to order the discharge of the jury; and the security whicli the public have for a faithful, sound and conscientious exercise of this...this, as in other cases upon the responsibility of the judge, under his oath of office. And it is held by all the Federal courts, and the courts of Massachusetts,... | |
 | 1903 - 1108 pages
...they Interfere with any of the chances of life In favor of the prisoner. But, after all, they have the right to order the discharge, and the security...responsibility of the Judges, under their oaths of office." US v. Perez, 9 Wheat 579, 6 L. Ed. 165. These views are conclusive upon the question presented by the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1882 - 798 pages
...they interfere with any of the chances of life, in favor of the prisoner. But. after all. they have the right to order the discharge; and the security...responsibility of the judges, under their oaths of ollice. We are aware that liiere is some diversity of opinion und practice on this subject, in the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1892 - 1066 pages
...chances of life in favor of the prisoner. But, after all, they have the right to order the discharge; nnd the security which the public have for the faithful,...responsibility of the judges, under their oaths of office." US v. Perez, 9 Wheat. 579. A recent decision of the court of queen's bench, made upon a full review... | |
 | District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936), Franklin Hubbell Mackey - 1885 - 624 pages
...careful how they interfere with any chances of life in favor of the prisoner. But, after all, they have the right to order the discharge; and the security...responsibility of the judges, under their oaths of office." It was claimed, in the argument, that when the court said that the law had invested courts of justice... | |
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... sure, the power ought to be used with the greatest caution, under urgent circumstances, and for very plain and obvious causes; and, in capital cases especially, courts should be extremely careful how they interfere with any of the chances of life,... 
