...are not even upon a level with the wicked ; for they are punished, while the wicked escape." Ib. " Better that many guilty should escape, than that one innocent person should be punished." Ib. Here, if I may be allowed the expression, Mr. Graham's common sense gets the better...

...compassion, and his administration of that branch of judicature, was based upon the humane principle that it is better that many guilty should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer. Notwithstanding all the divisions of parties and sects, he commanded general confidence, and his judicial...

...compassion, and his administration of that branch of judicature was based upon the humane principle that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent person should suffer. Notwithstanding all the divisions of parties and sects, he commanded general confidence, and his judicial...

...character completely under his control. On this account, proceeding upon the reasonable doctrine that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent person should be punished, the law requires that a certain amount of proof shall be necessary to establish guilt....

...confirmation, such evidence is subject to suspicion. The witness may be mistaken. The maxim of the law is, that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent should suffer ; and, whilst we are far from expressing the opinion that the prisoner is innocent, we...

...excellent maxim of antiquity, De morte hominis nulla cunclatio low/a est; and the still more excellent maxim, " It is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent man should suffer," seems to be entirely ignored by those who promulgate the above dangerous doctrine....

...and humanity, has so commended itself to universal acceptance, as to have grown into the proverb that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. With these rules before me, 1 will examine the evidence as it bears on the following...

...confirmation, such evidence is subject to suspicion. The witness may be mistaken. The maxim of the law is, that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent should suffer; and whilst we are far from expressing the opinion that the prisoner is innocent, we...

...consequence than the number of malefactors sentenced. It is an old principle of English jurisprudence that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. Love of law, the conception that it is for the good of all—so deeply implanted...

...rule, if it exists, must be regarded as part of the humane policy of the common law, which affirms that it is better that many guilty should escape than that one innocent should suffer; and that it may have its probable foundation in the idea that where direct proof is...