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Mold to this that & 449 dorys that privoners (/were properly designated) shall be re- - quired to plead instantly, unless where they are entitled to be served in the copy of

the Indictment - A felon is not entitled to a

copy of the Indictment, and therefore must plead instantly. In England the Legislature hous Rich recently abolished the justice of trial in the case of Misdemeanants, placing theem and felous, in this respect, in the some fisting, shewing that the tendency - of civilization is to lessen the farms__ "thewn to crime in any the

in any shape whether

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In is liberated the better for him, and of guilty the sooner he is punished the if better for Society - The Comert in its

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envstitution, hav finver to first fone the trial of a primer, if necessary for the onds of Justice, both in reference to the privover and to Society.

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and percustice on this point, but I think it mory be sofely left in the hands of the bust to deal with each enve

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extra Criminal pessions, if the ein-

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The Attorney General appears have been making capital of any suggestions, and complaining of a

-auce which nobody felt, although "just posible, by a too mercifultending

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