 | Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - Virginia - 1908 - 1434 pages
...condition above described of Judge JW 0. Blackstone. . . ' . • . •, The prisoner, Pevlinlc, when asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, replied that he did not think he should be sentenced because there was no judge presiding... | |
 | William R. Wagstaff - Society of Friends - 1845 - 506 pages
...court-room. When he was brought to the bar on the next day to hear his sentence, the judge asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed. " I have many things to say, if you will hear them," said Howgill. " First, as I have said, I deny... | |
 | William J. Blake - Dutchess Co., N.Y. - 1849 - 372 pages
...prisoner was brought in Court to hear his sentence. The Court ordered him to stand up, and asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. "He replied that he had nothing to say. " The Court then said to him, they must proceed to... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1854 - 790 pages
...made out ; he was proved to have married another woman, his first wife being still alive ; and he was asked, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. Tho prisoner said, the case was really one of great hardship ; his wife was not only an adultrcss,... | |
 | American Anti-Slavery Society - Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) - 1861 - 352 pages
...read his decision, overruling the motion in arrest of judgment; and, when asked, in the usual form, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, " he rose," the reporter of the Tribune says, " and leaned slightly forward, his hands resting... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Literary Criticism - 1867 - 328 pages
...senses, she saw, as in a dream, Abel standing up in court, erect and pale; and heard some one inquiring if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. Abel's voice was deep and agitated, as he answered, — " I have nothing to say, but once... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - Theology - 1868 - 538 pages
...by all, and they were afterwards eager to explain that he was not a resident of their county. Being asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, Brown rose, and said: — ' I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say.... | |
 | Law - 1901 - 510 pages
...Tipperary, by striking him over the head with a blackthorn. The judge asked him the usual question, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. " Well, my lord," answered the prisoner at the bar, " all I can say is, a man with such a... | |
 | Elizabeth Eiloart - 1870 - 322 pages
...the miserable wretch, and which he found it impossible to answer. Something he tried to utter when asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced ; Gordon Cundleigh thought he heard him mutter, " I may-be shoved her, but I didn't go to... | |
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The record shows that the defendant was asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. 
