| Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - 1908 - 1432 pages
...condition above described of Judge JW 0. Blackstone. . . ' . • . •, The prisoner, Pevlinlc, when asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, replied that he did not think he should be sentenced because there was no judge presiding... | |
| William R. Wagstaff - 1845 - 506 pages
...court-room. When he was brought to the bar on the next day to hear his sentence, the judge asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed. " I have many things to say, if you will hear them," said Howgill. " First, as I have said, I deny... | |
| William J. Blake - 1849 - 372 pages
...prisoner was brought in Court to hear his sentence. The Court ordered him to stand up, and asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. "He replied that he had nothing to say. " The Court then said to him, they must proceed to... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1854 - 790 pages
...; he was proved to have married another woman, his first wife being still alive ; and he was asked, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. Tho prisoner said, the case was really one of great hardship ; his wife was not only an adultrcss,... | |
| American Anti-Slavery Society - 1861 - 352 pages
...read his decision, overruling the motion in arrest of judgment; and, when asked, in the usual form, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, " he rose," the reporter of the Tribune says, " and leaned slightly forward, his hands resting... | |
| John Townsend Trowbridge - 1867 - 328 pages
...senses, she saw, as in a dream, Abel standing up in court, erect and pale; and heard some one inquiring if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. Abel's voice was deep and agitated, as he answered, — " I have nothing to say, but once... | |
| James Rattray - 1870 - 266 pages
...than ordinary interest. They were young, were well connected; they had not committed murder. Condon, when asked by the judge if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on him, in the course of an animated speech said, that he had never... | |
| 1901 - 510 pages
...Tipperary, by striking him over the head with a blackthorn. The judge asked him the usual question, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. " Well, my lord," answered the prisoner at the bar, " all I can say is, a man with such a... | |
| John Cam Hobhouse (baron Broughton.), John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1870 - 280 pages
...part of the transaction He laughed, however, and said that he might say with the Irishman, who, being asked by the judge if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, exclaimed, " Oh nothing, " except that by Jasus youve settled... | |
| 1883 - 252 pages
...student, lie had been Indicted for a crime and when, after pleading guilty, was asked by the presiding judge if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, replied in quite a lengthy address. The remarks were very good and no doubt the... | |
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