You have any will be laid before you. thing technical or peculiar in them - You are the - after examination of Witnesses and full deliberation - to say whether those Cases come - under the head of Murder or the Less criminal, though still highly charge of Manslaughter.
Should you under- serious difficulty in any point, you cannot instruct Lay, say that I will instruct you on it, but this I may say that I will be happy to give you my opinion supported by the best advice that I can obtain - I will not dismiss you to your labors without reminding you that in all cases where you may have doubts it is a wise and humane principle of the Law to give the advantage of those doubts to the accused and observance of this rule is more necessary when it is remembered that he can have no Counsel to plead for him. I wish to God that my share of the Investigations on which we are about to enter had fallen into more competent hands, but I can at least promise that I sit here to exercise the most rigid impartiality as well as to temper Justice with Mercy, and I am assured that you will most cordially and anxiously unite with me in the same feelings.
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