CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4] — Page 376

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br. content to disiniss with

opprobrium attachid to

the

Mon

lo

acquittal...

I consider the

verdict of now proves practically

opreate something

liver the

verdict in Faruch tribunals in

which the addition of avec des

Circon stauers attenuantes is

but another forme for allowing Jurors to escape pome this grah responsibilities.

to

This

me

Juror.

responsibilities

appear

to demands from the

a declaration whether

Or

the whole the Evidruer of quilt

or

of

innocrver preponderates.

Ohr. can

hardly

Concrive a cass

f

in which there is not some such

purponderation of Evidence.

the balaver

sids. of

to its

of evidence. br.

If

on

the

the accused., hr. is Entitled

hempit __ of the C

Contrary,

Socity has a right to claine that balaner for its own · probretion.

Tribunals

are created for

the solution of difficulties and not the erration of doubts

that

and it appears

sars to mr. a verdick of not provrne. leans,

a cast. in a more.

· purplexing.

position than that in which the Enquiry found it..

It may also not be unwriting

Consideration whether this

of consider