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1826. May 17.
2. Penal Code

Ch. VI. Offences affectg use of prop.
§. 10. Stealing

other.

But even if the propriety of this principle were
admitted, it would not warrant upon examination, it
would not be found to be susceptible of application
in this case. In this same practice very few
are the gradations of punishment admitted between
absolute impunity and death. On the other hand,
prodigiously numerous are the cases in which
this supposed faculty of has been
supposed to be observed and cases accordingly
grounded on them. The consequence has been &
would continue to be, a sort of auction on the part
of the proposers, of the correspondent extraordinary degree
of protection, for their respectively favourite and favoured
articles. And so large are the sums respectively
required to be added in order to constitute a bidding,
that before the hammer can fall be knocked struck? down, the
bidding is presently up to the mark of death.
The man of whom legislatures are composed have neither
appropriate knowledge, sound judgment, nor social
feeling. The men of whom juries are composed being
taken from the mass of the subject many have neither
adequate appropriate knowledge, or sound judgment,
but they have social feeling. By this same feeling
they are very generally disposed to in the character of jurymen their to
the execution of the laws. This they cannot do without the effects of perjury; letting
the judges, by whom, in regard to the proceedings of jurors, the directive function is exercised, give the
most positive and urgent encouragement to perjury in this case, that with lugubrious and some
countenance, after pocketing the fees they may have to pocket in other cases.

N.B. The same man as juror
would perhaps forbear to
execute apply the law which he
had made as a legislator.

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Date_1	1826-05-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	329	Info in main headings field	penal code
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
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