 | William Waller Hening - Forms (Law) - 1810 - 710 pages
...can be. Hat* SI c. 31. sect. 1. Upon a simple and plain confession of the indictment, the cour: hath nothing to do but to award judgment ; but it is usually...such confession, out of tenderness to the life of the prisoner; and will generally adiise him to retract it, and plead to the indictment. 4 Bl. Com. 329.... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 962 pages
...confession of the charge. — 2. If the prisoner make • simple and plain confession, the court hath nothing to do, but to award judgment : but it is usually...restraining of one's person, in execution of the command <,f some court, or officer of justice. The word arrest is French, and is used in that language for... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...prisoner's actual confession of the indictment. Upon a simple and plain con- , fessiou, the court hath nothing to do but to award judgment : but it is usually...will generally advise the prisoner to retract it, and plead to the indictment. But there is another species of confession, which we read much of in our ancient... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...prisoner's actual confession of the indictment. Upon a simple and plain confession, the court hath nothing to do but to award judgment : but it is usually very back* 2 Hawk. PCC30. §9. (5) Mr. Christian, in a note at p. 325, mentions an affecting story of a... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...prisoner's actual confession of the indictment. Upon a simple and plain confession, the court hath nothing to do but to award judgment : but it is usually very backc 2 Hawk. PC c.30. §9. (5) Mr. Christian, in a note at p. 325, mentions an affecting story of... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Criminal law - 1834 - 518 pages
...in this case, if he merely confesses, the court has nothing to do but to record the confession and award judgment; but it is usually very backward in receiving and recording such confession in capital cases, and will generally advise the prisoner to retract it and plead to the indictment.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 704 pages
...prisoner s actual confession ot the indictment, simple. Upon a simple and plain confession, the court hath nothing to do but to award judgment: but it is usually...will generally advise the prisoner to retract it, and plead to the indictment (/). But there is another species of confession, which we read or b'r »ppr°Te... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...had pleaded not guilty.) Stat 7 & 8 G. IV. c. 28. Upon a simple and plain confession, the court hath nothing to do but to award judgment : but it is usually...will generally advise the prisoner to retract it, and plead to the indictment. The plea of not guilty, is the only one on which the prisoner can receive... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - Christian ethics - 1841 - 440 pages
...of this he puts himself upon the country." (4) " Upon a simple and plain confession, the court hath nothing to do but to award judgment: but it is usually...will generally advise the prisoner to retract it, and plead to the indictment." Blackstone, I. iv. n. 329. (5) 2. 2. qu. Ixix. art. 1 . (6) L. ultim. cod.... | |
 | George Bowyer - Constitutional law - 1841 - 742 pages
...indictment, the court has nothing to do but to award judgment; but it is, as Blackstone informs us, usually very backward in receiving and recording such...will generally advise the prisoner to retract it, and plead to the indictment.1 The prisoner may plead to the indictment or information : 1. A plea to the... | |
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Upon a simple and plain confession, the court hath nothing to do but to award judgment: but it is usually very backward in receiving and recording such confession, out of tenderness to the life of the subject, ; and will generally advise the prisoner... 
