I moet decidedly object on practical
grounds, and from
the serious.
a
conviction of
inconveniences which it is
calculated to entail
not only
ort
the public,
in the heavy expenses
attending the detention of Witnesses,
but in the hardship
to both
witnesses
and untried Prisoners,
of the latter of whom, after imprisonment of nearly six mon might be proved innocent at last.
+
months
even
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from this time = Another evil, however,
attends this delay of criminal justice. Punishment follows
to
long after
the
theat
Crime,
great deal of the effect of:
example is lost. Resentiment
offence may
against
the
have
diminished with time, until
many
there
uths,
At this moment I
have been supplied by the sheriff
of twenty Prismere
with a List of liventy
committed for
various
offences, and
for the prosecution of whome seventy
· five witnesses
of these cases,
are
Required . None
if postponed until
the 15th December, could be
disposed of much under four
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months
remains
little else than
commiseration for the prisoner. In a place like this Colony, where crimes against life and property
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have been, and are
still,
frequent and atrocious, every,
possible
means
should be
adopted to render the Remedies
as
effectual as possible.
But I consider it
my imperative duty, independently
of