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" Being asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, Brown rose, and said: — ' I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. "
The Patriot War - Page 17
by Robert Budd Ross - 1890 - 101 pages
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Might and Right

Frances Harriet Green - Dorr Rebellion, 1842 - 1844 - 366 pages
...soul which nothing present could match, and, therefore, nothing could subdue, when asked by'ftie Clerk if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced against him, he stood up before his accusers, and thus he answered for himself. REPLY OF MR. DORR TO...
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Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 81

Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 816 pages
...held for naught. " And the defendant, being brought in open court, and having been asked by the court if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, having nothing to say, except to formally protest against further proceedings, is sentenced by the...
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Reports of Decisions in Criminal Cases Made at Term, at Chambers and in the ...

Amasa Junius Parker - Criminal law - 1858 - 734 pages
...defendant was present at the trial, or whether he was asked previous to the passing of the sentence if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced against him. Whether such objections would have been available if the record had been before the court,...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 17

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1859 - 1136 pages
...few passages from the speech of Langston, a colored man,. after his trial and conviction, when asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced ; a speech which for impassioned eloquence, unshaken firmness and moral power is rivaled only by that...
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Our Whole Country: Or, The Past and Present of the United States ..., Volume 2

John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 792 pages
...days, and Brown was found guilty upon all the counts in the indictments. The clerk then asked whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him. BROWN'S IPIBCH. Mr. Brown immediately rose, and in a clear, distinct voice, said : 'I have, may it...
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The Anti-slavery History of the John-Brown Year: Being the Twenty-seventh ...

American Anti-Slavery Society - Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) - 1861 - 352 pages
...next day, LAXGSTON was called tip to receive his sentence, and, to the customary question, whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, responded in a noble speech, full of vigorous eloquence, undaunted courage, and a spirit of thorough...
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Our Whole Country: Or, The Past and Present of the United States ..., Volume 1

John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 782 pages
...days, and Brown was found guilty upon all the counts in the indictments. The clerk then asked whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him. BROWN'S SPEECH. Mr. Brown immediately rose, and in a clear, distinct voice, said: 'I have, may it please...
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The Radical, Volume 4

Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - Theology - 1868 - 538 pages
...all, and they were afterwards eager to explain that he was not a resident of their county. Being asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, Brown rose, and said: — ' I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say. In the first place,...
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Reports of Practice Cases, Determined in the Courts of the State ..., Volume 6

Civil procedure - 1869 - 584 pages
...for burglary, that it does not appear from the record, that the defendant was asked before sentence if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced against him. In the absence of an obNEW YORK. jection or exception on a trial for crime, it will be...
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Niagara Index, Volume 16

College student newspapers and periodicals - 1883 - 252 pages
...lie had been Indicted for a crime and when, after pleading guilty, was asked by the presiding judge if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, replied in quite a lengthy address. The remarks were very good and no doubt the culprit thought he...
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