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Miscell. 1

Evidence from
Accomplices

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It is not prudent to give a standing pardon to
all offenders betraying their accomplices. That might
induce people to commit crimes with a certainty of in the intention of
impunity. betraying their accomplices The way is to see first what the circumstances
of the case are, whether the sufficient evidence
of can not be had from innocent persons: sufficient to direct at least to the Criminal,
if not to convict him. The evidence of an
accomplice should always be the last recourse. It
is paying very dear for evidence to give impunity
to a notorious offender.

What is to become of him an impeaching accomplice?
If you let him go he will do more mischief.
Yet if you detain him or by any other
means put him under a physical disability of
doing mischief it is a punishment: and if he
is to be punished he will not inform

Remedies — Opus publicum — Quasi tutela.
Distinguish between crimes of revenge and crimes of
rapacity.

In England it is said that the evidence of an
accomplice is never deemed sufficient to convict alone:
The case seems to be that the evidence of an innocent
person, usually the party injured is required to establish
the corps du delit, the fact of the offence: but the evidence
of an accomplice is deemed sufficient to identify
the offender. Now the fact of the offence is a
matter which usually there can be little difficulty
in getting proof of.

Identifier: | JB/063/007/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 63.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	53-61
Box	063	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field	miscell.
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	20196
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