In the event of the accused not succeeding in bringing sufficient testimony to clear himself, the prosecutor claimed a verdict in his favour from the free count presiding at the tribunal, who appointed one of the free judges to declare it.

In charging the jury, he commented severely on the conduct of the station police and directed them to return a verdict of not guilty, which they promptly did.

In his peaceful retreat on the banks of the Hudson he carefully and systematically prepared the evidence which should confound his enemies, and calmly awaited the verdict, firm in his faith that, however lowering the clouds, the sun would yet break through.

"This I consider a duty I owe the country more than myself, for, so far as I am personally concerned, I am conscious of a position that History will give me when the facts now suppressed by interested pirates and their abettors shall be known, which the verdict of posterity, no less than that of the judicial tribunals already given, is sure to award.

He had fought the good fight and he had no misgivings as to the verdict of posterity on his achievements.

There can be no danger of a verdict in her favor contrary to the evidence in the case.

In a short time they returned into court with a verdict of guilty, against William Craig, Marcus Butler, and John Wade; upon whom the judge then pronounced sentence of death.

Their verdict must be carefully weighed, for it would be surely executed.

the verdict they proclaim, When Innocence her cause defends.

Her husband seemed so entirely to depend on what Picard might say that Jeanne decided, should the verdict be unfavorable, she had best be at his side.

In the afternoon he sent a telegram to Jeanne: "Verdict unfavorable.

It may be that two, three, four, or even more, such examinations are necessary before he can justly pronounce a positive verdict.

This was corroborated by Wilson, and by Clodagh: and the verdict was in accordance.

An Irish paper, in noticing a coroner's inquest on a young woman who had drowned herself, says, the jury, after an hour's deliberation, brought in a verdict of wilful murder against herself.

The jury, accordingly brought in a verdict of guilty; and Robin Oig M'Combich, alias M'Gregor, was sentenced to death, and executed accordingly.

He said, "Criticism, sir, is not a pastime; it is a verdict on oath: the man who does it is (morally) sworn to perform his duty.

The true verdict, so far as we can judge, may be expressed in homely phrase: The British Navy has taken a knock but given a harder one.

Where a purer concord can be effected, it may be well to avoid such a construction, though examples like it are not uncommon: as, "Clodius was acquitted by a corrupt jury, that had palpably taken shares of money before they gave their verdict.

I know not that the latter has anywhere made use of such phraseology; and one or two examples from the former are scarcely an offset to his positive verdict against the usage.

But the Doctor, approving none of this practitioner's "remedies," and being less solicitous to provide other treatment than expulsion for the thousands of present passives which both deem spurious, adds, as from the chair, this verdict: "These verbs either have no present-passive, or it is made by annexing the participle in ing, in its passive sense, to the verb to be; as, 'The house is building.'"Ib., p. 236.

No Mason can be deprived of his masonic rights, except after a trial, with the opportunity of defense, and a verdict of his peers.

The Grand Lodge may, upon investigation, confirm the verdict of its subordinate.

A few minutes after that hour, Mr. Hamilton, District Attorney, rose and saidMay it please the Court, Thomas J. Wansley, the prisoner at the bar, having been tried by a jury of his country, and found guilty of the murder of Captain Thornby, I now move that the sentence of the Court be pronounced upon that verdict.

The public prosecutor now moves for judgment on that verdict; have you any thing to say, why the sentence of the law should not be passed upon you?

The witnesses, the jury, and the prosecuting Attorney consider me more guilty than Dawes, to condemn mefor otherwise the law must have punished him; he should have had the same verdict, for he was a perpetrator in the conspiracy.