| Caroline Frederica Beauclerk, Henrietta Mary Beauclerk - 1836 - 210 sidor
...unheard by Mary, who with a piercing scream fell heavily on the floor. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months. When the sentence was repeated to Mary, she exhibited no signs of grief;... | |
| William Wills - 1838 - 338 sidor
...evidence in other respects led to the suspicion that the defence was a fabricated one, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was...oats close to the path a black pocket-book containing a 51. note. The men took the pocket-book and money to the prosecutrix, who immediately recognised them,... | |
| 1843 - 452 sidor
...against him. In the : defence, it was urged that the prisoner had j been clerk to an attorney. The jury returned ; a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was ! sentenced to be transported for seven years', j Had this been a medical case, ie, an ex- I toriion of money by an unlicensed person... | |
| 1848 - 622 sidor
...prisoner endeavored to invalidate it ; the jury, however, after a deliberation of twenty-four hours, returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged, after the expiration of a year, spent in hard labor. The law of Maine, by a seeming compromise... | |
| 1877 - 814 sidor
...substantiated by witnesses the whole facts w'uch we have narrated above. The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to be executed at Glasgow, on the 24th of January following. An immense crowd assembled from all parts of... | |
| Charles Acton Burrows - 1877 - 182 sidor
...told some neighbors that she had fallen from a tree into a pile of elm tops and been killed. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged December 21st. Shortly before his execution Harris dictated a statement in which he said he... | |
| Virgil Anson Lewis - 1887 - 766 sidor
...because of his wounds, and he lay upon a mattress. On the evening of the third day of the trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty and the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged December 16th. As a last resort his counsel sought executive clemency. The law of Virginia provided... | |
| Virgil Anson Lewis - 1889 - 802 sidor
...because of his wounds, and he lay upon a mattress. On the evening of the third day of the trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty and the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged December i6th. As a last resort his counsel sought executive clemency. The law of Virginia provided... | |
| Richard Harris - 1890 - 404 sidor
...who were mowing a field of oats, through which a path lay by which the prosecutrix had gone to the market, found in the oats, close to the path, a black pocket-book containing five one-pound notes, which on being shown to the prosecutrix was immediately recognized as the one she had lost, and the... | |
| Arthur Percival Will - 1896 - 580 sidor
...under very extraordinary circumstances. The prosecutrix left home to go to market in a. neighboring town, and having stooped down to look at some vegetables...immediately recognized them ; and the committing magistrate dispatched a messenger with the articles found, and her affidavit of identity, to the judge at the... | |
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