...public virtue. After the usual formalities, he was called upon to answer, " whether he had any thing to say, why sentence of death should not be passed upon him." The judges, without doubt, supposed that he would probably make a solemn appeal, and protest, with...

...subsided, and he was aked if he had anything points against him were stated with terrible distinctness, to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, looked towards hi» counsel in mute appeal that he would He had resumed his listening and looked intently...

...greeting the news that he would die on Monday. The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. He bad resumed his listening attitude, and looked intently at his questioner while the demand was made...

...GUILTY. The judge then placed the black cap on his head, and on the prisoner being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he simply replied — " I am innocent of the crime." His lordship then addressed the prisoner, and afterwards...

...evidence against him, and he likewise was pronounced guilty of high treason. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he replied at first, " Nothing !" but then added " Non eadem omnibus decora. The House of the Wiltons...

...his unfeeling reply. Mr. James was now brought up to receive judgment, and being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, gave utterance to the words of Jeremiah (Jer. xxvi. 14, 15). The judge silenced him a second time,...

...look of a criminal who is called upon to advance something in arrest of judgment, or in other words, to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him ; his colour fled his cheek, and every appearance of the intense disappointment beneath which he was...

...then'i wel1 >DCIlt [ ofdtath should not be passed upon him." Vane rose upon this, "with an air which sufficiently indicated that he not only had something,...prevailed. When the indictment had been read in Latin, he nest claimed counsel to make exceptions to the indictment, according to law. After much discussion...

...greeting the news that he would die on Monday. The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. He had resumed his listening attitude, and looked intently at his questioner whilethe demand was made;...

...them were found guilty, and sentenced to death. When Colonel Despard was asked, if he had any thing to say, why sentence of death should not be passed upon him ? he said, " My lord, I have only to say, that after the charge was brought against me, of which I have...