 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 436 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1843 - 452 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | George Payne R. James - 1844 - 956 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Moses Aaron Richardson - 1844 - 436 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1844 - 406 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | 414 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1846 - 726 σελίδες
...,l!ionMnd liT"' al had then'i wel1 >DCIlt [ ofdtath should not be passed upon him." Vane rose upon this, "with an air which sufficiently indicated that he...indictment read in Latin, and he claimed it as a right undeniable. This led to a sharp debate between him and the judges and lawyers, in which he finally... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1846 - 366 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 380 σελίδες
...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;... | |
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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. 
