of criminal Law carefully prefers
in
1824, it is expressly stated that in cases of murder, homicide, robbery, in criminal cases
in short, if the prisoner attempts to baffle Enquiry, his ears may be filled, he may be made to wear chains, the calves of his legs may be pressed by a pole across them, or he may be slapped on the face with the open hand. The last is a severer infliction than it first seems, for when the prisoner allows the jaw to hang loose, it is lacerated by his teeth within.
The use of these punishments was not limited to the criminal, for where the accused was innocent, it was punishable only by the loss of one grade of rank and removal to another post.
The Leanne Manual Examines certain methods of torture to which it is illegal to resort. The first is an apparatus for compressing the ankles, smaller than that prescribed by the code, but which is forbidden lest it should be used at random: the larger being authorised only in grave cases and Entry required in these cases. The record being in each sentence of...
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