| North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Joseph Coghlan, Edwin James Taylor - 1912 - 812 pages
...conferred upon the jury in all cases of murder. The act does not itself prescribe, nor authorize the court to prescribe, any rule defining or circumscribing...exercise to the judgment and consciences of the jury. The authority of the jury to decide that the accused shall not be punished capitally is not limited... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1920 - 1228 pages
...conferred upon the jury in all cases of murder. The act does not itself prescribe, nor authorize the court to prescribe, any rule defining or circumscribing the exercise of this rignt; but commits the whole matter of its exercise to the judgment and the consciences of the jury.... | |
| California. Supreme Court - 1926 - 1010 pages
...conferred upon the jury in all cases of murder. The act does not itself prescribe, nor authorize the court to prescribe, any rule defining or circumscribing...the whole matter of its exercise to the judgment and the consciences of the jury. The authority of the jury to decide that the accused shall not be punished... | |
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