 | Edward Walford, George W. Redway - 1884 - 322 pages
...guilty of stealing six shep, (sheep) at Chintinge. On being asked by the bailiff if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he claimed the benefit of the clergy, which was granted by the Court. Robert Hyde, Vicar of Seaford, and... | |
 | Law reports general - 1882 - 544 pages
...from Jan. 30, 1648. On the llth June, Vane was brought np for judgment. The clerk demanded what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. Vane first alleged, that lie had not yet heard the indictment read in Latin. The debate upon this took... | |
 | James Paterson - 1882 - 546 pages
...Justice Abbott, who was suddenly taken ill, a man capitally convicted, being asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, exclaimed, " Yes : I have been tried before a Jowneyman Judge." A PRISONER ACCUSED OF DANGEROUS ELOQUENCE.... | |
 | Lucretia Chapman - 1882 - 238 pages
...accordingly brought into Court (about half past eleven o'clock,) and was asked if he had any thing to say, why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. Mr. M'Dowell, then rose and said that the counsel had nothing further to say, but that the prisoner... | |
 | John Worth Edmonds - 1883 - 500 pages
...the prisoner, in that language, the usual question asked by the clerk of the court as to what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him ? The prisoner then said in Spanish, which was interpreted, " I have something to say to the court.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 872 pages
...greeting the news tha 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 while the demand was made... | |
 | John Henry Ingram - 1884 - 340 pages
...his innocence of the charge. He was pronounced " Guilty." When the judge asked him if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he responded in a firm voice, that he forgave those men upon whose false testimony he had been convicted,... | |
 | 1884 - 676 pages
...returned into Court, finding the prisoner Quitty. Being asked in the usual course whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, the prisoner replied in the negative. Silence was then formally proclaimed, and Mr. Justice Day, having... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1885 - 874 pages
...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 while the demand was made... | |
 | 1884 - 498 pages
...guilty of stealing six shep, (sheep) at Chintinge. On being asked by the bailiff if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he claimed the benefit of the clergy, which was granted by the Court. Robert Hyde, Vicar of Seaford, and... | |
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The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. 
