CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 292

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as

bount of King's Bench, is no ancient as

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The Common Law itself. For

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as the thing

was bound to prosecute, or at least to lend

the panction of his

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name to a

prosecutor,

whenever a Grand Jury informed him upon

their saths that there was a

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ground for justitiv

instituting

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are

But these informations (of every kind)

confined by the Constitutional law to

mere miodemeanors only; for, wherever

"any capital offence is charged, the same

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law requires that the accusation be wananted

bey the sath of twelve

shall be put to

Criminal Suit: So,

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"When these his immediate officers

wee

that a man

Sufficiently assured t

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otherwise

"had committed a

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grofo

anower

men;

those Offences, in which

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misdemeanor, either

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personally against the thing or his fouemment

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they

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against the public peace

before the franty

it. And,

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to

in which informations

allowed

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well

as

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were

indictments, so long

to they were confired to this high and

respectable jurisdiction,

good order,

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legal

and

and gor

were at liberty, without waiting for any

farther intelligence, to convey that information

the bount of Kings Beach by a suggestion

on record, and to

in His Manjesty's

carry

name.

ow

the prosecution

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regular

and were

carried

course in His

Majesty's bant of Mingo Beuch, the pubject

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had no reason

to

complam.

The same notice

was

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given, the same

proces was isured, the same pleas

"allowed, the same trial by Juny

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