 | 1897 - 388 σελίδες
...thousand guilty men should escape than one innocent man should die. "" A century later Blackstone tells us that, "It is better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer. "" Early in the present century, in a series of Irish cases, we find it repeatedly... | |
 | 1901 - 1544 σελίδες
...respect to criminal punishment» in general, and capital punishments especially, it is commonly said that it is better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer. But there are bounds to that principle. It is not better that ten thousand guilty... | |
 | 1907 - 324 σελίδες
...protect the rights of the prisoner and to grant him in every way the benefit of the doubt, because it is better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should be convicted. Therefore the law deliberately ties its own hands as it were, so as to... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1916 - 944 σελίδες
...this case to be the ruin of the prisoner. Let the human maxim of the law be deeply fixed in your minds that it is better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. Reflect on the momentous consequences of your decision to this youth; suffer not yourselves... | |
 | 1914 - 608 σελίδες
...innocent persons. A code that would bring about this result would be intolerable. It has often been said that "it is better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should be convicted." Perhaps the proportion might even be increased with truth. It may be doubted... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1916 - 944 σελίδες
...this case to be the ruin of the prisoner. Let the human maxim of the law be deeply fixed in your minds that it is better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. Reflect on the momentous consequences of your decision to this youth ; suffer not yourselves... | |
 | Loukēs G. Loukaidēs - 1995 - 256 σελίδες
...October 1991, § 107, 108). 16 The philosophy underlying this strict standard of proof is the oft-quoted maxim that it is better that ten guilty persons should escape than one innocent suffer. It is sufficient for the accused to raise a doubt as to his guilt": Woolmington's... | |
 | Christopher Munn - 2001 - 500 σελίδες
...landlords, reminding MacDonnell that it was 'a common axiom amongst the British people that it were better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent man should be punished.' They also stressed the difficulties that householders faced in keeping track of the 'poorer... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1885 - 630 σελίδες
...Unpunished guilt is precisely the same species of evil with punished innocence. To say, therefore, that it is better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent man should suffer, is to say that it is better that there should be ten wrongs than one wrong against justice.... | |
 | 1861 - 582 σελίδες
...himself in a philosophical way (p. 37) : " It is easy, as a matter of rhetoric," he writes, "to say that it is better that ten guilty persons should escape than that one innocent one should suffer; but it would be absurd to attempt to maintain, as a matter of logic, that it was... | |
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In our criminal jurisprudence there is a maxim, deservedly eulogised, that it is better that ten guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent man should suffer... 
