 | Marine insurance - 1841 - 312 pages
...doubt, the balance is to be given against the prosecution, and in favour of the accused. Better is it that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. Therefore, it is a well established maxim, and a most righteous one, too, that wherever there... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1012 pages
...have heard it said again and again, by members of the bar, that that maxim of the law which declares that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should suffer, has been fully verified in their experience. Some of them go a little further, and say that... | |
 | Indiana. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 1022 pages
...have heard it said again and again, by members of the bar, that that maxim of the law which declares that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should suffer, has been fully verified in their experience. Some of them go a little further, and say that... | |
 | Sir Roger Therry - Courts - 1850 - 50 pages
...that " The Judge is counsel for the prisoner" — explained ib. Observations on the expression, " 'Tis better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer 17 Lynch's Case ........ ib. Rare occurrence of punishment being inflicted on an innocent man... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1853 - 566 pages
...prisoner is cautioned not to say anything which might convict him ; and, on the merciful principle that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should perish, there are numerous technicalities, by one or other of which an innocent person is almost sure... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1856 - 578 pages
...rules. Remember, that for the wisest and most evident reasons, the merciful maxim of the law, which says that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should be punished, is with us reversed, and that in Masonry it is better that ninety and nine true men should... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Mackey - Freemasonry - 1859 - 546 pages
...rules. Remember, that for the wisest and most evident reasons, the merciful maxim of the law, which says that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should be punished, is with us reversed, and that in masonry it is better that ninety and nine true men should... | |
 | 1863 - 682 pages
...which was translated, "The extreme rigour of the law caused wrong ;" and has heard from the justices that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. Now Policeman X. is governed by these maxima as a general thing, and sometimes by zeal, —... | |
 | Roger Therry - Australia - 1863 - 544 pages
...empanelled in that Colony, to refer to Lynch's case in dealing with an oft-cited expression, that " 'tis better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer." As criminal justice is administered in this country — and with truth the same may be now... | |
 | William Worth Belknap - Trials (Impeachement) - 1876 - 1180 pages
...This is a question which rises far above all party considerations. "We have been told from the bar that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer. Bat it might have been said with more aptness that it is better that five huudred guilty men... | |
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Remember, that for the wisest and most evident reasons, the merciful maxim of the law, which says that it is better that ninety-nine guilty men should escape, than that one innocent man should be punished... 
