Florence Maybrick, and to commute the punishment to penal servitude for life, inasmuch as, although the evidence leads clearly to the conclusion that the prisoner administered and attempted to administer arsenic to her husband with intent to murder, yet... The Medico-legal Journal - Page 481edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
| Alexander William Macdougall - 1891 - 652 pages
...reviewed that evidence, Mr. Matthews's " decision " is that the evidence— " Does not wholly exclnde a reasonable doubt whether his death was in fact caused by the administration of arsenic." Mr. Matthews, as a man learned in the law, knows that that " decision " is a decision which quashes... | |
| Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1901 - 908 pages
...attempted to administer arsenic to her husband with intent to murder, yet it does not wholly exclude reasonable doubt whether his death was in fact caused by the administration of arsenic." That sentence coldly and accurately conveys the impression Lord Llandaff enlarged upon in private conversation... | |
| Alfred Swaine Taylor - 1897 - 836 pages
...the prisoner administered and attempted to administer arsenic to her husband with intent to murder, yet it does not wholly exclude a reasonable doubt...in fact caused by the administration of arsenic." Sir James Fitz James Stephen, who presided at that trial and who had later resigned from the bench,... | |
| 1897 - 380 pages
...the Home Secretary as to exercising Her Majesty's prerogative on the ground that the evidence left a reasonable doubt whether his death was, in fact, caused by the administration 6f arsenic (which in this case is equivalent to a reasonable doubt whether murder had, in fact, been... | |
| Clark Bell - 1898 - 310 pages
...the Home Secretary as to exercising Her Majesty's prerogative on the ground that the evidence left a reasonable doubt whether his death was, in fact, caused by the administration of arsenic (which in this case is equivalent to a reasonable doubt whether murder had, in fact, been committed),... | |
| 1899 - 398 pages
...the prisoner administered and attempted to administer arsenic to her husband with intent to murder, yet it does not wholly exclude a reasonable doubt...in fact caused by the administration of arsenic." And although the report of the trial discloses moral evidence against her of tremendous force, yet,... | |
| Clark Bell - 1902 - 584 pages
...the prisoner administered and attempted to administer arsenic to her husband with intent to murder, yet it does not wholly exclude a reasonable doubt,...was in fact caused by the administration of arsenic " ? e. Mrs. Maybrick was not indicted nor was she tried nor convicted for " administering or attempting... | |
| Charles Ainsworth Mitchell - 1911 - 302 pages
...prisoner administered and attempted to administer arsenic to her husband with intent to murder him, yet it does not wholly exclude a reasonable doubt...in fact caused by the administration of arsenic." matter under the notice of each succeeding Home Secretary, but always without avail. It was not until... | |
| Charles Ainsworth Mitchell - 1911 - 298 pages
...prisoner administered and attempted to administer arsenic to her husband with intent to murder him, yet it does not wholly exclude a reasonable doubt...in fact caused by the administration of arsenic." Persistent efforts were made to obtain the liberation of the prisoner, and Lord Russell of Killowen,... | |
| 1897 - 468 pages
...the prisoner administered arid attempted to administer arsenic to her husband with intent to murder, yet it does not wholly exclude a reasonable doubt...stated : (It will be seen that Mr. Leslie Stephen, who no doubt had legal assistance in this part of his narrative, omits all reference to the words which... | |
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