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 32 - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ...you. I am one of the last persons who oughtto attempt to mislead you upon the law that belongs to this case; but, before you find Mr. Hatchard guilty, you must be persuaded he had an intention to-fabricate some story to bring these gentlemen, or some one of them (leaving it to find its way amongst the eight as it might) into disgrace or disrepute. I regret exceedingly the course which my learned friend has been ordered to take. It is one of the illustrations of the mischiefs which cannot fail to attend a legislative body ordering prosecutions. It will be much better to leave persons who feel that their individual cornfbrt, satisfaction, and character, have been broken in upon, to find their own way--which they do without the slightest difficulty--into a court of justice, to seek redress; rather than to attempt, by influence and authority, to give effect to that which wounds neither their individual comfort, satisfaction, nor character, if it be founded in fact and justice. My learned friend is ordered to take the course he has taken to-day. To me who have known him thirty years, who have been acquainted with his discretion and prudence in the management of business, it was not necessary that he should say he was acting nnder orders. It is an expression we should use as to a particular client, who orders one not to refer a cause, or to call witnesses, when one's own judgment inclines one to do so; but here is a legislative enactment of the island that Mr. Sergeant Best shall be called here--he has an advantage that he is a legislator here; and there is an act of the legislature of Antigua, ordering him not only to conduct this prosecution, but to conduct it in a certain mode and manner. My learned friend, in his other character of a member of the British leg...

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