Besides, the law makes no criminal, PROPERTY.

The state of Delaware is the only state that punishes criminals by tying them up and whipping them on the bare back with a cat-o'-nine-tails, and all our men had been warned to be good while they were in Delaware, 'cause if they committed any crime there was no power on earth that could save them from being publicly horsewhipped.

This case, for example, is so intricate and unusual that only by careful thought, and following each thread of evidence to its end, can we hope to bring the criminal to justice.

" "Then pursue the criminal at once, with assistance, and bring him back here.

Thirty-one days were allowed them for producing the criminal; and if that time elapsed without their being able to find him, the borsholder, with two other members of the decennary, was obliged to appear, and, together with three chief members of the three neighbouring decennaries, (making twelve in all,) to swear that his decennary was free from all privity both of the crime committed, and of the escape of the criminal.

If they had any idea of a duel, it was totally unconnected with the life of the nobles; it was merely the exhibition of mercenary gladiators, slaves devoted to slaughter, condemned criminals, who, alternately with wild beasts, were set to butcher one another to make a Roman holiday.

"I have known experienced criminal investigators declare, as an infallible axiom, that to find the person interested in the committal of the crime is to find the criminal.

3. The governor is invested with the royal prerogative of pardoning criminals, or commuting the sentences pronounced upon them by the courts.

I never knew a daring young criminal yet that didn't have some woman, and often several of them, ready to go the limit for him.

The Earl of Westmoreland said, that the African Slave Trade might be contrary to humanity and justice, and yet it might be politic; at least, it might be inconsistent with humanity, and yet not be inconsistent with justice; this was the case when we executed a criminal, or engaged in war.

'You are called by the King,' said the officera form of speech always used when about to arrest a criminal.

There was a good deal of horse and sheep-stealing going on in that particular locality, and a large amount of tact and ingenuity were necessary to discover the criminals.

But an honest man like you doesn't want to shield a criminal from justiceleast of all a cold-blooded murderer.

The director of the prison sent him to the asylum for the insane criminals at Montelupo, which shelters criminals suspected of insanity and insane criminals.

"People are always seeing an escaped criminal in a dozen different localities at the same time.

There being an advantage in such condemnation, they strain the crimes very hard, in order to get the benefit of selling the criminal.

He had been employed to follow up several great Italian criminals, and had made a number of important arrests in Paris.

Her energy was marvelousand yet was she not hunting down a criminal?

My heart is not locked up; I am no Jack Ketch, prosecuting criminals for ten dollars a head.

It was not, therefore, so much the nature of the offence as the importance of it in the eyes of the Judges that caused three of them to sit together and try the criminals.

You want someone to help you catch the criminals who are holding your little girl.

But your wrath will 'stand to cool;' and you will hate to make a girl cry as you would hate to send a criminal to the electric-rack, the lightning-stroke, or the vivisection-table.

But on the following morning the girls surrounded Patsy's father and with solemn faces recounted their suspicions, the important clues they had unearthed, and their earnest desire to right the great wrong that had been done by apprehending the criminal.

Long and solid ladders riveted to the pillars enabled the executioner and his assistants to lead up criminals, or to carry up corpses destined to be hung there.

Let us, therefore, sir, retain in our hands the cognizance of this affair, and let the criminal either suffer his punishment from our sentence, or owe his pardon to our mercy.