... advantage his wife's absence to instil into the drink for the girl's supper some narcotic drug, and subsequently committed the crime for which he was brought to justice. The Judge passed sentence of death upon hiin, holding out no hope that the sentence would ...

... , and especially of a representative Government, and whether the millions yearly expended in the repression punishment of crime and disorder by coercive means might not have been better employed in the prevention of those evils by moral applications. ...

... suitable instrument for catching or punishing murderers and house-breakers. if liero were no laws for punishing incitements to crime, whether made at the altar of a chapel or in popular assembly. In the meantime, O'Connell the Second -as John to be considered ...

... wipe awa l C ' ol ' s I which crimes of so base a nature have brought ' Stail County, by detecting and bringing to punishment^*' * his perpetrators of them. '» ' He vi| : We recommend, therefore, for the purpose of t> crime, if possible, in the first instance ...

... been brought to punishment. And here 1 cannot forbear stating the striking connection that exists between Ig- norance and Crime in those prisoners who have come under my care. Of five hundred and ninety-three whom I have mi- j nutely examined, three hundred ...

... the Kast Indies—by the suppression of Calcutta Journal, of which he was chief proprietor, without any trial or conviction of crime—and for no other apparent reasou thau that the said journal exercised the freedom of discussion on the public acts of the Indian ...

... independent of the application of the wet cloths.—Mr. Justice Creswell said it was the law that no man could be found guilty of a crime unless he was proved to have committed it. In this case a scientific man, who was the only witness that could be called, told ...

... Lordship, ?? 10s. 6d. in boards, AFulland Correct Account ofthe TRIAL* by Impeachment, of HENRY LORD ,VISCOUNT MELVILLE, for High Crimes and 'Misdemeanors, before the House of Peers, in Wesr- minster- hajl, between the 2&tb of April.'and the 1 7th of M3V, iSO ...

... whatever the expense, it can only drawn from the State by a larger contribution of individuals ; and when the mere punishment of crime is costing above a million a year, two millions would not be thrown away in enlightening the minds of the people. ...

... and more particularly for the manner in which they bid given their testimony before the grand inquest. A great decrease of crime had taken place in the county, and which the Grand Jury attributed to the activity and exertieghpf the police. the paragraph ...

... respecting ths Game Laws, we must all agree, that the offence of poaching generally tends to the commission of the greatest crimes* housebreaking, highway robbery, and murder. . It is unne- cessary to point out the lamentable instances which have re-, cently ...

... carnage fpread, '1 hat rais'd t'e land to mountains with his dead, Th ...