 | Coleman Phillipson - 1923 - 376 sider
...the death penalty. ROMILLY. The validity of the assumption has by no means been established. PALEY. He who falls by a mistaken sentence may be considered...which the welfare of the community is maintained. ROMILLY. Nothing is more easy than thus to philosophise and act the patriot for others, and to arm... | |
 | Nova Scotia. Supreme Court, James Thomson, Alexander James, Fitzgerald Cochran, Henry Oldright, John Morris Geldert, James Macdonald Oxley, Benjamin Russell, Samuel Ainsley Chesley, Frank W. Russell, William Bernard Wallace, LaMert S. Whinyard - 1873 - 358 sider
...acconntability." Again, in a warning voice, he reminds UK that Ri,roilly condemned the execrable maxim of Pnley, " that he who falls by a mistaken sentence may be considered as* falling for bis country, while be suffers under the operation of those rules by the general effect and tendency... | |
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1937 - 840 sider
...convict and hang an innocent man was a very small affair to the sufferer. Chief Justice Gibson says, "He who falls by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling for his country; while he suffers under the operation of those rules by the general effect and tendency of which the... | |
 | V. A. C. Gatrell, Vic Gatrell - 1994 - 660 sider
...sentences were appropriate to the crime. But should mistakes happen and the innocent sometimes hang, 'he who falls by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling for his country'. The chief end of the criminal law was not justice but 'the welfare of the community': The security... | |
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They ought rather to reflect, that he who falls by a mistaken sentence, may be considered as falling for his country ; whilst he suffers under the operation of those rules, by the general effect and tendency of which the welfare of the community is maintained... 
