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Evidence Incompetency

Every non-witness prosecutor is liable to be caught in a snare Separate by force of law the witness from the
prosecutor, you put a sure game into the hand
of wickedness, and you enable the guilty to render
the station of prosecutor untenable through despair
and to throw back upon the servants of the
law the given sufferings worse perhaps than what were destined for its enemies
and violators. An accomplice with a tale in your An offence say one act of smuggling for instance is or is not committed on a particular
occasion by an inveterate offender. hearing a tale of an offence An habitual
You are an officer of the revenue. An habitual
confederate for the express purpose of deceiving tells a story about it, true or not
true in part, but in some essential circumstances
essentially false. Relying upon his this testimony you
prosecute and forming a charge which if who
the story as told by him were true would entitle
you to a conviction, but which not being in fact
supported by the truth must fall to the ground.
When the trial comes on, he tells the real truth,
which not being competent to support the charge
entitles the defendant to an acquittal, and
fastens upon you the expence of the suit with
the odium of having informed and the infamy
of having calumniated. shewn yourself a calumniator What course can be under all




Identifier: | JB/051/096/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

051

Main Headings

evidence; procedure code

Folio number

096

Info in main headings field

evidence

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

floyd & co

Marginals

Paper Producer

arthur young

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

16261

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