A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, with Notes and Other Illustrations, Volume 19Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816 - Trials |
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Page 833 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 879 - And so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do say, that the said John W. Webster, him, the said George Parkman, in manner and form aforesaid, then and there feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder...
Page 283 - King there being, in contempt of our said Lord the King and his laws, to the evil example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 271 - Green then and there instantly died. And so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do say, that the said John Jones, him, the said William Green, in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder, against the peace of the people of the state of New- York, and their dignity.
Page 277 - Clerk, one of the Justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the peace...
Page 935 - ... there be thought and design ; a faculty to distinguish the nature of actions ; to discern the difference between moral good and evil ; then, upon the fact of the offence proved, the judgment of the law must take place.
Page 805 - ... belief of what I am now going to write. It has employed my invention for some time, to find out a method of destroying another without exposing my own life : that I have accomplished, and defy the law.
Page 269 - Fitch, then and there being found, feloniously did steal, take and carry away, against the peace of our lady the Queen, her crown and dignity.
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