 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - 1906 - 836 σελίδες
...governor. Said Chief Justice Marshall in United States v. Wilson, 1 Pet., 150, 8 L. Ed., 640 : "A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. ... It releases the offense and obliterates... | |
 | Ohio. Courts - 1906 - 732 σελίδες
...Black's Law Dictionary defines a pardon as follows: "An act of grace proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the...bestowed- from the punishment the law inflicts for the crime he has committed." Where, as is the case in Ohio, the Constitution gives the pardoning power... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - 1908 - 392 σελίδες
...prescribing the manner in which it is to be used by the person who would avail himself of it. A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." 22 The effect of a full pardon is to blot out the offense; the party pardoned cannot be further punished... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - 1908 - 608 σελίδες
...prescribing the manner in which it is to be used by the person who would avail himself of it. A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed."43 The pardoning power extends to all otfenses except in cases of impeachment. The President... | |
 | United States - 1908 - 2032 σελίδες
...of his duties by the statute. McBlair v. US, 19 ibid., 528. ' The pardoning power. — A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflict-ч for a crime he has committed. It is the private though official act of the executive magistrate,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1909 - 1220 σελίδες
...governor cannot interfere with a pardon. "A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power S7a intrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed": United States v. Wilson, 32 US *150, 8 L. ed. 640. A pardon affects only the public interest in the... | |
 | 1910 - 1334 σελίδες
...parole is to be granted. Chief Justice Marsball in United States T. Wilson, supra, said: "A pardon is an act of grace proceeding from the power intrusted...punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. It is tlie private, though official, act of the executive magistrate, delivered to the individual for... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - 1910 - 950 σελίδες
...and pardon« for offenses against the United State*, ежeept In cases of impeachment. A pardon is "an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted...individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment which the law inflicts for a crime he has committed." 2S As the pardoning power is a general executive... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - 1910 - 1330 σελίδες
...efface and to cause to be forgotten a crime or misdemeanor : the latter is an act of the same authority, which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the punishment the law inflicts for the crime he has committed. Bouvier: United States v. Bassett. 5 Utah, 131. IS Рас. 237: llavies... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - 1911 - 554 σελίδες
...very accurate knowledge of the underlying principle of the pardoning power and that it is essentially an act of grace, proceeding from the power intrusted...with the execution of the laws, which exempts the particular individual receiving the pardon from the punishment the law prescribes for the crime committed.2... | |
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A pardon is an act of grace, proceeding from the power entrusted with the execution of the laws, which exempts the individual, on whom it is bestowed, from the punishment the law inflicts for a crime he has committed. 
