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Tit VII B Obs.
District Court of Appeal preferred evidently malâ fide accompanied with
an evident consciousness of there being groundless
This check can not be applied in the case of capital
punishment without a degree of severity too
unpopular to be endured: and the case will be
nearly the same in all instances where the
severity of the punishment serv will appear
in the eyes of the multitude to warrant any
artifices that can be employed for driving the
fatal moment to a distance.
Complaints for misb But why If a complaint
for misbehaviour were allowed when there is no
appeal, the a possible consequence would be that a Judge
should be punished for condemn an unjust
sentence when the sentence is under the same Case which renders
the suspension of that sentence impossible. This
at least may be the case when the punishment
is capital or consists in the infliction of some
other irreparable other irreparable corporal injury, which the
such as branding. And this is one of the numerous
reasons against capital punishment.
It is to guard against this contingency that
I give the power of app compelling the allowance
of an appeal before a superior Judge to the same sets of persons to
whom I give in Tit. XV. the power of option reclaiming
the intervention of a Jury.
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