 | Sydney George Fisher - 1899 - 544 Seiten
...him down.) " Recorder. — The question is, whether you are guilty of this indictment ? " Penn. — The question is not whether I am guilty of this indictment...an answer, to say it is the common law, unless we know both where and what it is ; for where there is no law, there is no transgression, and that law... | |
 | Albert Sidney Bolles - 1899 - 618 Seiten
...proceedings are merely arbitrary." Howell: "The question is whether you are guilty of this indictment." Penn: "The question is not whether I am guilty of this indictment,...is too general and imperfect an answer to say it is common law, unless we know both where and what it is, for where there is no law there is no transgression... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1903 - 368 Seiten
...merely arbitrary. Recorder. — The question is, whether you are guilty of this indictment ? Penn. — The question is not whether I am guilty of this indictment,...is too general and imperfect an answer to say it is common law, unless we know both where and what it is ; for where there is no law there is no transgression;... | |
 | 1906 - 584 Seiten
...bear him down. "The Recorder. The question is — whether you are guilty of this indictment. "Penn. The question is not whether I am guilty of this indictment,...is too general and imperfect an answer to say it is common law unless we know both where and what it is, for where there is no law there is no transgression,... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1913 - 726 Seiten
...bear him down.) Recorder. — The question is, whether you are guilty of this indictment? Penn. — The question is not whether I am guilty of this indictment...indictment be legal. It is too general and imperfect to answer, to say it is the common law, unless we know both where and what it is; for where there is... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1970 - 1156 Seiten
...proceedings are merely arbitrary. "Rec. The question is, whether you are Guilty of this Indictment? "Perm. The question is not, whether I am Guilty of this Indictment,...general and imperfect an answer, to say it is the common-law, unless we knew both where and what it is. For where there is no law, there is no transgression;... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1970 - 1208 Seiten
...proceedings are merely arbitrary. "Rec. The question is, whether you are Guilty of this Indictment? "Penn. The question is not, whether I am Guilty of this Indictment,...general and imperfect an answer, to say it is the common-law, unless we knew both where and what it is. For where there is no law, there is no transgression;... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1999 - 608 Seiten
...are merely arbitrary. "RECORDER. The question is whether you are guilty of this indictment. " PENN. The question is not whether I am guilty of this Indictment, but whether this indictment be legal. It isx too general and imperfect an answer to say it is the common law, unless we knew both where and... | |
 | Jeffrey B. Abramson - 2000 - 356 Seiten
...asked him whether he pleaded guilty to the indictment, Penn saucily shot back that the question was not "whether I am guilty of this Indictment but whether this Indictment be legal." Penn then *As proceedings began, the Lord Mayor of London, sitting as one of the judges, was irked... | |
 | Norman J. Finkel - 2001 - 404 Seiten
...which they should measure the truth of the indictment, and the guilt, or contrary of my fact? . . . The question is not, whether I am guilty of this indictment, but whether this indictment be legal.21 When the jury's deliberations began, Venn's Case merged with Bushell's Case. Initially, the... | |
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Penn: The question is not whether I am guilty of this indictment, but whether this indictment be legal. It is too general and imperfect an answer, to say it is the common law, unless we know where and what it is. 
