 A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offense and the guilt of the offender; and when the pardon is full, it releases the punishment and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if...  Annual Reports of the War Department - Page 221by United States. War Department - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Edward McPherson - Reconstruction - 1875 - 664 pages
...inquiry arises as to the effect and operation of a pardon. On this point all the authorities concur: a pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for...and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offence. If granted before... | |
 | United States Court of Commissioners of - History - 1877 - 164 pages
...conferred on the President by the Constitution is unlimited, except in cases of impeachment. 2d. That the pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offense and the guilt of the offender, releasing the punishment and blotting out the guilt of the offense. 3d. That Congress cannot in any... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...are taken or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment. Ex parte Garland, 4 Wall. 333. A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for...and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offense. Congress can not... | |
 | George Washington McCrary - Election law - 1880 - 568 pages
...inquiry arises as to the effect and operation of a pardon, and on this point all the authorities concur. A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for...and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offense." CHAPTER II. OF... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2038 pages
...inquiry arises as to the effect and operation of a pardon, and on this point all the authorities concur. A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for...and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent hs if he hud never committed the offense. If granted before... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 886 pages
...fit person to exercise the elective franchise. CAMPBELL, J. The doctrine of the authorities is, that "a pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offense and the guilt of the offender," and that "it releases the punishment and blots on: of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law,... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - Constitutional history - 1881 - 556 pages
...this point all the authorities concur. A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offence and the guilt of the offender; and when the pardon is full, it releases the punishment and * But when the Court below exceeds its jurisdiction, and disbars an attorney for an alleged contempt... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1130 pages
...the case of Ex parte Garland, 4 Wall. 333, 380, the effect of a pardon is stated as follows, to-wit: "A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for...punishment and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in theeye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offense. If granted... | |
 | Herbert Fielder - Confederate States of America - 1883 - 816 pages
...this point all the authorities concur. A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offence and the guilt of the offender ; and when the pardon...and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offence. If granted before... | |
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