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INDICTMENTS.
The doctrine of Indictments a conspiracy against Common Sense. I never can look into the doctrine of Indictments without repeated recurring indig2nation & concern 1 - indignant
at the contued perpetual insult which it gives to the common Sense of every Englishman, bringing
Indictments should be so drawn as that a person knowing the Law on that behalf may have to say if this be true the accused cannot but be guilty. (add> of some one crime as specified by the Law </add> this means under in what is said under Definitions p.1. qu.v. And that the accused may be appraised of all those circumstances which it would be natural for him to dispute - Every beyond this is frivolous & mischievious. These principles therefroe will draw the Line between such objections to the forms of Indictments as should be mentioned, & such as should be repulsed.the Law into general & so far as itregards that matter well - mented contempt: sorrow concern for at the unhappy race of suffering
which I imagine & see springing up under the shadow of that doctrine, invited to all villainers by the prospect
of impunity - The intelligence of this weakness of the Law is too interesting to all <add> who mean to be to
escape them; interest a pressing & obvious instructing men in certain who are instructed in no others:
They know not indeed previously from what quarter will that cloud will arise which is to
them from forwever or for a time the [eye] sword of Justice: but they know it is suffered not what ,del> that it may arise: they know how L
often it will obey the spell of a Golden Talisman: and that many if distinction has
Warned at by the Chink - reason takes her Flight from the Judgment Seat: indeed overtaken most of their predecessors, multitudes is of them have died not because they
Jargon reigns triumphant [ & alone] & enjoys the success of in the succession of offerings whihc follow each other often than many a dull hour </note>were guilty, but because they were poor -Senseless indeed must be that argument
which urged with gravity <& confidence </add> by the Advocate, & embellished by a few apposite aphorisms
on the topic of Humanity , will not procure a delay from Judges, compelled by
precedent & accustomed by Habit to pay < daily </add> attendtion to formal objections in matter os Law the most frivolous & the
most foreign to the merits of the point in question.
Whenforms of ndictment are thus
reduced to a certainty thy may be
printed leaving nalnks for the
particular specification.
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