 | Aaron Burr - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 552 pages
...confession of the party in open court." The opinion of the supreme court so often referred to states, that " the framers of our constitution, who not only defined...limitation by providing that no person should be convicted of it unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court,... | |
 | Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 652 pages
...of the party in- open court." The opinion of the supreme court so often referred to states, that " the framers of our constitution, who not only defined...limitation by providing that no person should be convicted of it unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court,... | |
 | Aaron Burr - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1808 - 608 pages
...in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they are not ripened into treason. The wisdom of the legislature...and the framers of our constitution, who not only denned and limited the crime, but with jealous circumspection attempted to protect their limitation,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 516 pages
...and those ^institutions which have been ordained in order to secure # 127 the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they...legislature is competent to provide for the case ; and the trainers of our constitution, who not only defined and limited the crime, but with jealous circumspection... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1838 - 620 pages
...laws and those institutions, which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they...and the framers of our constitution, who not only defmed and limited the crime, but with jealous circumspection, attempted to protect their limitation,... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...laws and those institutions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they...limitation by providing that no person should be convicted of it, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 754 pages
...those * institu- [ * 127 ] tions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they...limitation by providing that no person should be convicted of it, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 756 pages
...those * institu- [ * 127 ] tions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they...and the framers of our constitution, who not only denned and limited the crime, but with jealous circumspection attempted to protect their limitation... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Actions and defenses - 1885 - 1126 pages
...laws and those institutions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they...limitation by providing that no person should be convicted of it, unless on tke testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court,... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - Bounties, Military - 1898 - 578 pages
...laws and those institutions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society are not to escape punishment because they have not ripened into treason. So, also, the court in the case of Respublica v. Abraham Carlisle (1 Dallas, 35) said: By joining the... | |
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Crimes so atrocious as those which have for their object the subversion by violence of those laws and those institutions which have been ordained in order to secure the peace and happiness of society, are not to escape punishment because they have not... 
