Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Volume 11The Institute, 1920 |
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Page 313 - But whenever the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive or intent is a necessary element to constitute a particular species or degree of crime, the jury may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time, in determining the purpose, motive or intent with which he committed the act.
Page 184 - Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical. If you have no doubt of your premises or your power and want a certain result with all your heart you naturally express your wishes in law and sweep away all opposition.
Page 185 - I wholly disagree with the argument of the government that the First Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force. History seems to me against the notion. I had conceived that the United States through many years had shown its repentance for the Sedition Act of 1798, by repaying fines that it imposed.
Page 184 - I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
Page 184 - ... the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market ; and the truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Page 97 - No law enacted by the General Assembly shall relate to more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title...
Page 291 - ... punishable by imprisonment in a state prison, or a male between such ages convicted of a misdemeanor who has formerly been convicted of a misdemeanor may, in the discretion of the trial court be sentenced to imprisonment in the New York state reformatory at Elmira, to be there confined under the provisions of law relating to that reformatory.
Page 358 - From a decision or judgment quashing, setting aside, or sustaining a demurrer to, any indictment, or any count thereof, where such decision or judgment is based upon the invalidity, or construction of the statute upon which the indictment is founded. From a decision arresting a judgment of conviction for insufficiency of the indictment, where such decision is based upon the invalidity or construction of the statute upon which the indictment is founded. From the decision or judgment sustaining a special...
Page 185 - Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, 'Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.
Page 291 - A woman between the ages of fifteen and thirty, convicted of a felony, who has not theretofore been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment in a state prison...