A Full and Authentic Report of the Testimony on the Trial of Matt. F. Ward: Certified to be Correct by Thomas D. Brown, Clerk of Hardin Circuit Court; Wm. Alexander, Former Commonwealth Attorney for the Hardin District; and Judge Alex. Walker ... With the Speeches of Gov. Crittenden, Gov. Helm, T.F. Marshall, Esq., and Nathaniel Wolfe, Esq., and the Reply of Alfred Allen, Esq., Attorney for the Commonwealth, Volumen91Appleton, 1854 - 176 páginas |
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Página 120 - And it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God ; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Página 70 - For the law, in this case, respects the passions of the human mind; and (when external violence is offered to a man himself, or those to whom he bears a near connection) makes it lawful in him to do himself that immediate justice to which he is prompted by nature, and which no prudential motives are strong enough to restrain.
Página 79 - It should, however, be observed that when the law makes use of the term malice aforethought, as descriptive of the crime of murder, it is not to be understood merely in the sense of a principle of malevolence to particulars, but as meaning that the fact has been attended with such circumstances as are the ordinary symptoms of a wicked, depraved, and malignant spirit; a heart regardless of social duty, and deliberately bent upon mischief.
Página 70 - The defence of one's self, or the mutual and reciprocal defence of such as stand in the relations of husband and wife, parent and child, master and servant. In these cases, if the party himself, or any of these his relations...
Página 69 - The right of personal security consists in a person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health, and his reputation.
Página 78 - ' You have a solemn duty to perform, and I want you to perform it. I want you to perform it like men — like honest men. I ask your sober judgment on the case, but it is right for that judgment to be tempered with mercy. It is according to the principles of law, one of whose maxims tells you ' it were better for one hundred guilty men to escape than for an innocent one to be punished.
Página 74 - There standeth one among you whom ye know not : He it is who cometh after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose.
Página 79 - When a man of sound memory and of the age of discretion unlawfully kills any reasonable creature in being, and under the King's peace, with malice aforethought, either express or implied by the law, the death taking place within a year and a day.
Página 150 - He is a man — you are men — and I only want that sympathy which man can give to man. I will not detain you longer. But you know, and it is right you should, the terrible suspense in which some of these hearts must beat, during your absence. It is proper for you to consider this, for in such a case all the feelings of the mind and heart should sit in council together. Your duty is yet to be done; perform it as you are ready to answer for it, here and hereafter. Perform it calmly and dispassionately,...
Página 70 - Selfdefence therefore, as it is justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the law of society.