 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...murdered it. Fourthly, all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. And Sir Matthew Hale in particular lays down two rules most prudent and necessary to be observed: i.... | |
 | Élie Halévy - France - 1904 - 540 pages
...Connu. 352 : Ail presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously : for the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. — Et Paley, Moral and Political Pliilosophy, Book VI, chap. ix, sub finem. ' 54. Rat. of Jud. Er.,... | |
 | James William Norton-Kyshe - Law - 1904 - 432 pages
...Burdett (1820), 1 St. Tr. (NS)162. Compare 15, 16, above. See also JUDGES, 80 ; TRIAL FOE LIFE, 1. 32. It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.3— Sir Wm. Blackstone (1765), Com. Bk. 4, Ch. 27, Vol. IV. p. 358. See also 3, above ; 35,... | |
 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...Copyright. Study these examples. 1. The other maxim which deserves a similar examination is this : — "That it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent man should suffer." If by saying it is better be meant it is more for the public advantage, the proposition... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...positive proof, he goes on : — ] The other maxim which deserves a similar examination is this : — " That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer." If by saying it is better be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Crime - 1916 - 944 pages
...'All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously (says Blackstone), for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.' And Sir Matthew Hale in particular, lays down two rules most prudent and necessary to be observed.... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Crime - 1916 - 944 pages
...'All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously (says Blackstone), for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.' And Sir Matthew Hale in particular, lays down two rules most prudent and necessary to be observed.... | |
 | Henry Roscoe, Herman Cohen - Evidence (Law) - 1921 - 1368 pages
...Blackstone, 4 Comm/ 359, 'all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously, for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.' The following case was cited by Sjt. Garrow, arguendo in Hindmarsh, 2 Leech, 571, 1792: the mother... | |
 | Coleman Phillipson - Capital punishment - 1923 - 376 pages
...the pillory for all who are capable of feeling the humiliation. Finally, he objects to the maxim, " that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent man should suffer"; and insists that courts should apply the rules of evidence and procedure, and not... | |
 | George Arthur Malcolm - Constitutional law - 1926 - 812 pages
...26 Phil. 170; US v. Baua (1914) 27 Phil. 103; Coffin v. US (1895) 156 U. b. 432, 3t> "the la\v holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." M The presumption stands until it is overbalanced by competent evidence. It is characterized by the... | |
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That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer. 
