Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Volumen7The Institute, 1917 |
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Adam's sentence was comparatively light ; he must work hard for a living - no slavery , no torture - followed by ultimate death . The trial is over , the prisoners convicted and sentenced , but the indirect effect is still to come ...
Adam's sentence was comparatively light ; he must work hard for a living - no slavery , no torture - followed by ultimate death . The trial is over , the prisoners convicted and sentenced , but the indirect effect is still to come ...
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... sentence . If the court finds that the de- fendant has been wrongfully convicted , the judgment of the trial court is quashed . If it finds that the defendant has had a fair trial , but that the sentence imposed is too severe , the sentence ...
... sentence . If the court finds that the de- fendant has been wrongfully convicted , the judgment of the trial court is quashed . If it finds that the defendant has had a fair trial , but that the sentence imposed is too severe , the sentence ...
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... sentence , the court may increase or decrease the sentence . By reason of this informality of procedure , the court is able to administer justice with greater certainty and expedition than other courts of appeal . It is wrong to ...
... sentence , the court may increase or decrease the sentence . By reason of this informality of procedure , the court is able to administer justice with greater certainty and expedition than other courts of appeal . It is wrong to ...
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... sentenced to death . Nicholanus Emil Ohlers was convicted at Durham , December 9 , 1914 , of high treason , and sentenced to death . He was a German by birth , but had lived in England thirty years . In 1905 he was naturalized and ...
... sentenced to death . Nicholanus Emil Ohlers was convicted at Durham , December 9 , 1914 , of high treason , and sentenced to death . He was a German by birth , but had lived in England thirty years . In 1905 he was naturalized and ...
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... sentence of the trial court was affirmed , on November 9 , 1915 . William George Simpson was convicted on June 30 , 1915 , and sentenced to death . He was a soldier , and one day returning home , found his two year old son very sick ...
... sentence of the trial court was affirmed , on November 9 , 1915 . William George Simpson was convicted on June 30 , 1915 , and sentenced to death . He was a soldier , and one day returning home , found his two year old son very sick ...
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Página 421 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Página 586 - Congress has the power not only to raise and support and govern armies, but to declare war. It has, therefore, the power to provide by law for carrying on war. This power necessarily extends to all legislation essential to the prosecution of war with vigor and success, except such as interferes with the command of the forces and the conduct of campaigns. That power and duty belong to the President as Commander in- Chief.
Página 408 - If the states may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom-house; they may tax judicial process; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government. This was not intended by the American people. They did not design to make their government dependent...
Página 263 - If, in foreign invasion or civil war the courts are actually closed, and it is impossible to administer criminal justice according to law, then, on the theatre of active military operations, where war really prevails, there is a necessity to furnish a substitute for the civil authority...
Página 249 - If a war be made by invasion of a foreign nation, the President is not only authorized but bound to resist force by force. He does not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge without waiting for any special legislative authority. And whether the hostile party be a foreign invader, or States organized in rebellion, it is none the less a war, although the declaration of it be
Página 447 - Comparison of a disputed Writing with any Writing proved to the Satisfaction of the Court to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by Witnesses ; and such Writings, and the Evidence of Witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the Court and Jury as Evidence of the Genuineness, or otherwise, of the Writing in dispute.
Página 686 - All persons so drafted shall, from the date of their draft, stand discharged from the militia, and shall from said date be subject to such laws and regulations for the government of the Army of the United States...
Página 264 - It is claimed that martial law covers with its broad mantle the proceedings of this military commission. The proposition is this: that in a time of war the commander of an armed force (if in his opinion the exigencies of the country demand it, and of which he is to judge), has the power, within the lines of his military district, to suspend all civil rights and their remedies, and subject citizens as well as soldiers to the rule of his will; and in the exercise of his lawful authority cannot...
Página 261 - There are under the Constitution three kinds of military jurisdiction: one to be exercised both in peace and war; another to be exercised in time of foreign war without the boundaries of the United States, or in time of rebellion and civil war within states or districts occupied by rebels treated as belligerents...
Página 253 - The genius and character of our institutions are peaceful, and the power to declare war was not conferred upon Congress for the purposes of aggression or aggrandizement, but to enable the General Government to vindicate by arms if it should become necessary its own rights and the rights of its citizens.