Sentence Examples:
On his recounting the circumstances of the assault, they were taken down and read over to the defendant with the usual warning.
The defendant may be convicted under this indictment of murder in the first or second degree or manslaughter in the first degree.
Justice whom you cannot afford to banish from your borders calls upon you to pronounce over this defendant's head the verdict of guilty.
He had been summoned to Lawyer Kimball's office, where he discovered that he was about to be defendant in two suits for libel.
The plaintiff appointed counsel, the court accorded a counsel to the defendants, and the ecclesiastical judge summed up and gave sentence.
Grievous though his shortcomings in other directions may have been, this court has never known the defendant to break his word.
These last two documents show quite clearly that this defendant was again implicated in the preparation for this act of aggression.
A hot altercation followed, which ended in the defendants tendering an appeal, which was refused; and they were committed for trial.
The defendant was a lusty young fellow apparently about my own age, of extraordinary agility and no mean skill with the sword.
In the meantime, I may state, that your client, the defendant, is a young lady of matchless beauty, great fortune and accomplishments.
It transpired that the personal estate was insufficient, but the defendant did not pay one of the legacies within the time stipulated.
And as a result, in each case plaintiff and defendant went off together, their differences settled and their former animosity quite forgotten.
At the inquest every person examined was a government witness; there was no defendant, and of course, no witnesses for the defense.
The latter takes a look at the defendant, concludes that the officer is right, and off goes the prisoner to the workhouse.
If you believe that the defendant is guilty of publishing this libel with the intention charged, you will pronounce your verdict of guilty.
Why should you hear this evidence, if after all you are to shirk the responsibility and turn the defendants over to the Court?
The defendant is not in a position to give his Counsel any information whatsoever regarding the crimes imputed to him in the Indictment.
The question was raised as to the existence or activity of that body and the letterhead is from the defendant in that capacity.
Now, let us look at that, because that is an important feature in the case, important for the commonwealth, important for the defendant.
They want to be not only jurors, but district attorney, counsel for the defendant, expert witness, and judge into the bargain.
The People "rested," and the defendant, a miserable specimen of those wretched beings that constitute the penumbra of crime, took the stand.
The defendants had refused to pay over to the claimant his one-fifth of the estate, not being satisfied of his complete reformation.
Had any one of these and many other similar objections been sustained, all indictments against the graft defendants would have been invalidated.
It is not necessary to give in evidence the particular expressions used: it is sufficient to prove generally that the defendant is always scolding.
Addressing the jury as defendant, he actually boasted of having flogged several persons under circumstances more aggravated than those before the court.
We charge the defendants with the initiation, instigation, and direct execution, individually and through their agents, of the criminal plan of conspiracy.
The shouts of the jury, proclaiming me as the savior of the country crushed and annihilated the defendant and all his supporters.
The next step in the proceeding is the unfortunate discovery that the defendant's confession, since it cannot be corroborated, is entirely worthless.
No man would elect to occupy the position of defendant in an action for breach of promise, or prefer to sojourn in a debtors' prison.
I repeat first that some person on the boat unlawfully killed Jefferson Beard; secondly that this defendant, aided, incited and encouraged such shooting.
The defendant filed a disclaimer of the office of town councillor, and therefore allowed judgment of ouster to pass against him, with costs.
The French say that trials may be greatly simplified if the presumption of guilt is attached to every defendant in a criminal case.
The defendants, being found guilty, were sentenced to be fined, to stand several hours in the pillory, and to be imprisoned for life.
Upon a preliminary trial before the justice I waived an examination of the case and had the defendants enter bail for their appearance at court.
Five of the speeches in this book were taken from the reports in the Times, as was admitted by the defendant, substantially verbatim.
A totally distinct method is for the defendant to secure bail, and, after securing as many adjournments as possible, simply flee the jurisdiction.
Both of the defendants referred to were convicted of the crime for which they were indicted, and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.
He said aloud, acquitting the fair defendant with a convinced enthusiasm, for he was really glad to believe the new goddess a goddess indeed.
A plea in abatement is brought forward by a defendant when he wishes to defeat or quash a particular action on some formal or technical ground.
Yet the Defendant considers this the free investigation of opinions; and to prosecute a blasphemous publication, he says, is to prevent freedom of opinion.
An angel then interposing for the defendant, recommended the apothecary for a charitable person and one that physicked the poor for nothing.
The closing portion of the address was given up to an endeavor to discredit the testimony adduced to establish an alibi for the defendant.
If the evidence in this case showed no looting except of that sort, I certainly would ask no conviction of these defendants for it.
If the evidence in this case showed no looting except of that sort, I certainly would ask no conviction of these defendants for it.
Since, however, the defendant's own advocate has voluntarily admitted that there is ground for further inquiry, I am compelled to order a remand.
If what the defendant has said is blasphemy under this statute then the question arises, is the statute in accordance with the Constitution?
If what the defendant has said is blasphemy under this statute then the question arises, is the statute in accordance with the constitution?
These woodcuts were pirated by the defendants, and used as illustrations in their serial publication, "The Story-Book for Young People, by Aunt Mary."
In either event he must come finally into a court of chancery and include the holders of these leases as parties defendant to his action.
No evidence was put in for the defense, the defendant modestly refrained from taking the stand, and of course an acquittal was inevitable.
If the prosecuting witnesses relied upon documentary, circumstantial or hearsay evidence to convict, their testimony was at once rejected and the defendant was released.
There is no doubt, however, that the defendant used reprehensible language, and offered some resistance to the constable in the execution of his duty.
There is no doubt, however, that the defendant used reprehensible language, and offered some resistance to the constable in the execution of his duty.
At the conclusion of the charge the defendant's attorney proceeds to put the judge through what is familiarly known as "a course of sprouts."
Five more defendants are much younger men who are nevertheless already known as the possessors of considerable scientific ability, or capacity in medical administration.
On the other hand, it cannot be gainsaid that there is a certain consistency, a certain logic, in the story told by the defendants.
At the conclusion of the charge the defendant's attorney proceeds to put the judge through what is familiarly known as "a course of sprouts."
Of course the defendants were accused of this heinous sin; this brilliant passage concluded with a direct allusion to the "very aristocratic trio before him."
When they got to the station house, and witness was proceeding to make the charge, the defendants repeated their disgusting epithets and language.
Especially was her business ability shown in securing a jury a portion of whom she brazenly boasted dare not find for the defendant.
The accused made reply even as the real defendant had done and denied the charge before the Judge, professing himself ready to take oath thereto.
Oftentimes, also, the prosecuting attorney is a young, inexperienced lawyer, ill-paid, who is no match for the able attorneys employed by the defendant.
When the evidence for the defendant is all in, the plaintiff may introduce evidence in rebuttal, after which the defendant may do likewise.
The defendants copied matter from the latter issue and pleaded that it was unregistered, and therefore that they were entitled to copy it.
Your Honor will realize that her emotions were wantonly and deliberately played upon by the defendant in a skillful endeavor to create sympathy for himself.
The defendant was never more right, but he erred grievously by his prophecy as to which of the two would first pass away.
As a result of all of these senseless and barbaric experiments, the defendants are responsible for manifold murders and untold cruelty and torture.
It, better than anything else, can show the conditions as they then existed as a result of the conspiratorial efforts of the defendants.
The accused made reply even as the real defendant had done and denied the charge before the Judge, professing himself ready to take oath thereto.
In the same trial he condescended, in the midst of that burning eloquence of which we have spoken, to make two puns on the defendant's name.
The combat was then the privilege of the defendant, because he charged the witness with an attempt by perjury to take away his right.
And some actions of trespass are for consequences more remote from the defendant's act than in other instances where the remedy would be case.
The bearded attorney who had destroyed defendant after defendant was battering at him, with the massed artillery of vindictive and unremitting aggressiveness.
His lordship again said, that as an English judge, independent of every other consideration, he would not suffer the defendant to question the Scriptures.
In consequence the questions were not only uncommonly searching, but both the district attorney and the defendant's counsel exhausted their peremptory challenges.
In his testimony, he deposed that the two defendants had no knowledge of the great opportunity until revealed by him at the time mentioned.
This is not a test of the defendant's guilt or innocence, but a test of the abstract learning and quickness of the presiding judge.
Consequently, the fascist aggressors, the defendants, knew that by their predatory attacks on other countries they committed the gravest Crimes against Peace.
This is not a test of the defendant's guilt or innocence, but a test of the abstract learning and quickness of the presiding judge.
If the defendant cannot make a deal before the complaint bureau, his lawyer is entitled on demand to get possession of the file on his case.
The seventy, preferring to die with the defendant rather than be held answerable for his destruction, brought in a unanimous verdict in his favor.
Did the plaintiff during years of effort build up a business and take the defendant in as a partner only to be defrauded by him?
The judge is in a curious position with regard to objectionable questions and testimony, he ought not to penalize the plaintiff by punishing the defendant.
Judges, or rather arbiters, may be agreed upon by the plaintiff and defendant; and if no decision is obtained from them, their fellow-tribesmen shall judge.
When the defendant does not answer or, answering, admits the allegations in the petition, the court shall require proof before granting the divorce.
In this case the jury found that the defendant had stripped the girl wantonly, and not from any belief that it was necessary.
These were to be the subject of lynching and not, as this defendant had suggested, a case where there was the bombing of a city.
The charge once made is held as just and true until it has been disproved, and in trial the cause of the defendant is first stated.
The third count charges that the defendants, being inspectors of elections, received the votes of fourteen women who had no right to vote, wrongfully.
The analogy to the previous case is marked, but we are a step farther away from trespass, because the force does not come from the defendant.
By these means the defendant's life was saved, and Douglas, notwithstanding various decisions of his against them, earned the gratitude of the religious enthusiasts.
No, the District Attorney has not excluded these hypotheses, he has confined himself to picturing this defendant as a husband jealous of the deceased.
The only question is, does the evidence show beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime for which she has been indicted?
The point turned upon the question of identity; the defendant denying that the plaintiff was his half-brother, or in any way entitled to relationship.
In the case at bar, the defendant has given his promissory note to pay the plaintiff a sum of money on or before a certain day.
I remember hearing a story once of a most estimable gentleman who had the misfortune to be the defendant in an action for breach of promise.
A bribe of money had quelled his righteous indignation; plaintiff and defendant were now accomplices, whose one interest was to conceal their joint iniquities.
"I have but one condition," interposed the defendant, "if I win this test, I would like to submit a question of my own to the Cyber."
After an elaborate argument of the case, in which the defendants were represented by eminent lawyers, Chancellor Smith granted the prayer of the petitioners.
Every challenger fought with eight several defendants two several combats at two several weapons, viz. at push of pike, and with single sword.