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Mold to this that & 449 dorys that prisoners (were properly designated) shall be required to plead instantly, unless where they are entitled to be served with a copy of the Indictment - A felon is not entitled to a copy of the Indictment, and therefore must plead instantly. In England the Legislature has recently abolished the right of trial in the case of Misdemeanants, placing them and felons, in this respect, in the same footing, shewing that the tendency of civilization is to lessen the forms "thrown in the way of crime in any shape whether
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a man be innocent the sooner he is liberated the better for him, and if guilty the sooner he is punished the better for Society - The Court in its discretion, having power to fix the time for the trial of a prisoner, if necessary for the ends of Justice, both in reference to the prisoner and to Society.
There are many views of the Law and justice on this point, but I think it may be safely left in the hands of the Judge to deal with each case as it occurs, and I have not heard that the Chief Justice ever refused to hold extra Criminal sessions, if the circumstances of the case rendered it expedient. This power of appointing any day appears to me to meet every difficulty or emergency.
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The Attorney General appears to have been making capital out of any suggestions, and complaining of a grievance which nobody felt, although "just possible, by a too merciful tending
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