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Offenders Princ. & Accessory Present in Law As the characteristic words are adopted at first were
commonly too narrow to embrace the mischief the remedy
was to change those words of their own authority which
they dared not do or any thought of doing since the
matter originated with the parties nor by the authority
of Parliament whichy they found is too much trouble to
attempt; but to sqeeze within them a meaning of the most
different & sometimes opposite nature [to the miserable
torture of language, & the great scandal to common
sense] — thus in heinous Crimes it was early perceived
that there was much the same reason for punishing a
man who was present to give assistance to another
employed immediately about the obnoxious act, as
that other: presence then created the guilt: but it
never occurred to them the assistance of the first man
might be just or useful & necessary tho' he was not
within sight or hearing, & so was not present: as if
he was placed at a distance but upon the watch —
by and by a case of this sort happens — they now
perceive it's identity in point of guilt with the other
what then is to be done? presence they have been accustomed
to require. Present the man must be to be convicted
but he is not present no matter — he is present in the
eye of the Law P. Law 215 the Law presumes
him present — it implies his presence: it implies what
it is accessary to his being guilty should be true &
is not so — As the Law stands, the man is not
quilty, but he is a troublesome fellow presume him
guilty and there is an end of him.
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