Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason; And Other Crimes and Misdemeanor from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... from the Ninth Year of the Reign of King Henry, the Second, Volume 21
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason; And Other Crimes and Misdemeanor from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... from the Ninth Year of the Reign of King Henry, the Second, Volume 21
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...this application ought not to bo made by the prisoner himself, at the bar, the words of the statute being, " Upon his or their requests;" but the Attorney General comtuling, the motion was allowed." ceeded was this. Norton opened the indictment. The Attorney General then stated the case, and produced ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 edition. Excerpt: ...this application ought not to bo made by the prisoner himself, at the bar, the words of the statute being, " Upon his or their requests;" but the Attorney General comtuling, the motion was allowed." ceeded was this. Norton opened the indictment. The Attorney General then stated the case, and produced the evidence for the crown; the witnesses being examined in their turns, by the different counsel concerned for the prosecution, viz. the Attorney General, the Solicitor General (Mansfield), Bearcroft, Lee, Howorth, Dunning, and Norton. Kenyon then opened the case on the part of the prisoner; after which, Erskine, his other counsel, told the court, he meant to reserve his address to the jury, till after the evidence for the prisoner had been gone through: he said there was a precedent for this, in the State Trials. Qu.J Lord Mansfield, upon this, told him, that, as far as he was concerned, he should be glad to hear him at any stage when it was most desirable to himself; and the Attorney General declared, that no objection would be made on the part of the prosecution. The evidence was then produced; and Erskine having observed upon it, the Solicitor General replied. " The case, on the part of the prosecution, was; that the prisoner, by assembling, a great multitude of people, and encouraging them to surround the two Houses of Parliament, and commit different acts of violence, particularly burning the Roman Catholic chapels, had endeavoured to compel the repeal of an act of parliament. Viz. 18 Geo. 3, cap. 60. " Lord Mansfield, when he began to sum up the evidence, stated to the jury, that it was the unanimous opinion of the court, that an attempt, by intimidation and violence, to ahove Vhe number of ten persons, on...
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