Respublica v. Newell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
The defendant was tried at the last Circuit Court for Franklin county on the 29th September 1801, before Yeates and Smith-, Justices,, and convicted of perjury on the following indictment. Of August sessions, Anno Domini 1800. Franklin county, ss.
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The defendant was tried at the last Circuit Court for Franklin county on the 29th September 1801, before Yeates and Smith-, Justices,, and convicted of perjury on the following indictment. Of August sessions, Anno Domini 1800. Franklin county, ss. The grand inquest for the county of Franklin, upon their oaths and affirmátions respectively do present, that at a Court of Common Pleas, held at Chambersburgh, in and for the county of Franklin, before James Riddle, esq. and his associates, judges of the said court, upon the 30th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1799, a certain plea was…
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · SmithSmith, Justice
The defendant has been found guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, in his answer to certain interrogatories filed in the court of Common Pleas of Franklin county, touching certain oppro *brious expressions, made use of by him respecting the *411] same court. His counsel have filed reasons in arrest of judgment, which we have fully considered.
I shall first premise, that tenderness ought always to prevail in criminal cases, so far at least, as to take care, that a man may not suffer otherwise than by due course of law, nor have any hardship done him, or severity exercised upon him, where the…
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