 | Joseph Chrisman Hutchison - 1887 - 352 pages
...traceable to the liquor shops. How often have I had young men look up at me when I asked them what they had to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced, declare, ' I should never have done this crime if it were not for drink. Rum was my ruin ; rum struck... | |
 | Wilbur Franklin Bryant - 1887 - 180 pages
...verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. Riel was asked, as is usual, if he had anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon him. He spoke for two hours with much eloquence, reviewing his life, and the grievences of his... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1888 - 710 pages
...offense pleaded guilty to it, and upon being asked the usual preliminary question to his being sentenced, "what he had to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon him," etc., made such a candid, ingenious statement in response that the court declined to sentence... | |
 | John Ellis - 1888 - 120 pages
...one of thousands. Many times in my own experience have young men looked up to me when asked what they had to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced, andfalteringly said, ' I was drunk — I would not and could not have done it had I not been drunk.'... | |
 | Sanford Moon Green - 1889 - 376 pages
...thirty-five years as circuit judge, when any response has been made to the question if he had anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against him, the convicted criminal has stated that he was intoxicated at the time the crime was committed, else... | |
 | Sanford Moon Green - 1889 - 374 pages
...one of thousands. Many times in my experience have young men looked up to me, when asked what they had to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced, and falteringly said, ' I was drunk ; I would not and could not have done it had I not been drunk.'... | |
 | Texas. Court of Appeals - 1889 - 828 pages
...defendant. Even before this can be done the defendant must be asked, and ihe judgment show, what he has to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced. These are all parts and parcels of the case. Some of them may be waived and others not. The sentence... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1890 - 618 pages
...sentence upon him after conviction without putting the formal question as to whether he had anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced against him; and iu People v. Murray, 40 N. "W. Rep. 29, the supreme court of Michigan, in a late decision, held... | |
 | John Haywood - 1891 - 534 pages
...jury found him guilty of the murder of John Ish, as charged in the bill of indictment. Being asked what he had to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced, he replied that he had not any thing to say; that he came out with an intention of killing and stealing... | |
 | Frederick William Seward, William Henry Seward - 1891 - 878 pages
...declare him guilty. When the judge shall proceed to the last fatal ceremony, and demand what he has to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon him, although there ahoold not 1846.] THE SENTENCE. 821 be an unmoiatened eye in this vast assembly,... | |
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Judge shall proceed to the last fatal ceremony, and demand what he has to say why the Sentence of the Law should not be pronounced upon him... 
