Territory v. Benoit

By the Court.

It cannot be done. Bail is never allowed in offences punishable by death, when the proof is evident or the presumption great. On a Coroner’s inquest finding a person guilty of a capital crime, the Judges have often looked into the testimony which the Coroner is bound to record, and when they have been of opinion that the jurors had drawn an illogical conclusion, admitted the party to bail. But as the evidence before the Grand Jury is not written and cannot be disclosed, the same discretion and control cannot be exercised, and the judges cannot help considering the finding of the…