 | Edgar Benton Kinkead - Jurisprudence - 1905 - 496 pages
...the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all...which commands the very judge to be his counsel." It is the duty of an attorney to defend one charged with crime, though he be convinced that the prisoner... | |
 | John O'Connor Power - Oratory - 1906 - 386 pages
...judgment; and, in proportion to hk rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose...which commands the very judge to be his counsel." The contradictory opinions of Boswell and Dr. Johnson, two laymen, may now be quoted. Johnson reasons... | |
 | John Randolph Dos Passos - Lawyers - 1907 - 198 pages
...the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the veryjudge to be his counsel." This utterance, as is known, was made in a great public case, yet the... | |
 | Thomas Paine, Thomas Clio Rickman - 1908 - 476 pages
...heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all...Gentlemen, it is now my duty to address myself without disgression to the defense. The first thing which presents itself in the discussion of any subject... | |
 | Greek letter societies - 1914 - 370 pages
...mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of the English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel." He certainly did much more to assert the independence of the Bar in this case than in his collision... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 800 pages
...judgment, and in proportion to his rank and reputation puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favour the benevolent principle of the English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.' (State... | |
 | George Purcell Costigan - Legal ethics - 1917 - 656 pages
...the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all...which commands the very judge to be his counsel."— Speeches of Lord Erskine, edited by James L. High (1876) pp. 473-475. 2» In an article on The Right... | |
 | Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - Law - 1917 - 970 pages
...mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of the English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel."20 In the year 1913 there has been a very vigorous discussion in England over this practice... | |
 | Simeon Eben Baldwin - Law - 1919 - 216 pages
...the heavy inference of perhaps mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all...which commands the very judge to be his counsel." 1 Judge Ellsworth, afterward chief justice of the United States, said to Jeremiah Evarts, who was anxiously... | |
 | Canadian Bar Association - Law - 1920 - 396 pages
...the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused in whose favor the benevolent principle of English Law makes all...which commands the very Judge to be his counsel." The subject was much discussed because Sir Edward Carson and the present Lord Chancellor, then FE Smith,... | |
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If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the Judge ; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence... 
