...Justice Abbot, who was suddenly taken ill, a man eapitally convicted, being asked if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, exclaimed, " Yes ; I have been tried bi-fore a Journeyman Judge." • CHAP. The cruel sentence passed...

...us is safe 9" — At the same assizes, a man convicted of murdering his wife being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, gave a very moving account of his wife's misconduct, and the provocation he had received from her....

...addressing the prisoner, informed him of the verdict of the jury, and asked him if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. With the manner of a man who scarcely knew where he was, and whether all he saw and heard ought not...

...us is safe?'- — At the same assizes, a man convicted of murdering his wife being asked what he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, gave a very moving account of his wife's misconduct, and the provocation he had received from her....

...sufficiently recovered to receive the sentence of the Court, and was called upon in the usual form to say " Why Sentence of Death should not be passed upon him according to Law ? " He began by apologising for the interruption he had given to the business of the...

...proved against him by a chain of clear and incomestible evidence. On being asked if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he addressed the court in a speech which occupied about twenty minutes in the delivery, in which he took...

...camp, and in the ensuing August Major Sirr arrested him. His dying speech, upon being asked what had he to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, is altogether unequalled for eloquence and intensity in the annals of Irish forensic oratory. We defy...

...public virtue. After the usual formalities, he was called upon to answer, " whether he had any thing to say, why sentence of death should not be passed upon him." The judges, without r^oubt, supposed that he would probably make a solemn appeal, and pro» test, with...

...murder of the overseer, after which he was asked, with a sort of mock solemnity, if he had any thing to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. " Go on," said the indignant culprit; "hang me, kill me, do your will! I was held a slave for the best...

...power of eloquence, as I then thought, a portion of Robert Emmett's reply to the question, "What he had to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him ?" It was a favorite theme for our weekly declamations, and its author was to us a sort of demi-god....