...after an hour and a half consideration, returned with a verdict of guilty. When McKae was asked as to whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, he said that any sentence that might be passed upon him had no terror for him because...

...voluntary ; and that furthermore, when called upon by the presiding magistrate of the court to state if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, replied he had nothing further than he had communicated to Mr. Gray. Given under our...

...no possible excuse to offer when, standing in front of a platoon of soldiers, he would be askr-d if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be executed upon him. While agreeing with much which this writer says on the subject of the battle, and...

...accused was convicted of the crime of murder, and upon being led to the bar and asked by the court if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced against him, though his counsel alleged that he was at the time a lunatic, and that sentence...

...the trial, November 1, 1859, in answer to the customary question of the judge to the prisoner as to whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. It gives the best insight that we have into the motives of this strange, nobleminded...

...that any reason why you should interrupt the proceedings of the court ? " " You asked the prisoner if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced upon him. I have something to say." The judge addressed John Armitage. " Do you know this...

...grew grave again when the sonorous voice of the judge rang through the court, asking the prisoner if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. Vickers, so fiercely cruel in evil-doing, was a coward now. He had not really thought...

...v. Com., 16 Pa. 129, Chief Justice Gibson said : " We find no entry that the prisoner was demanded whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on him, the absence of which was ruled in Rex v. deary, 2 Salk. 630, and King v. Speke,...

...prisoner who was sentenced to death in the good old days for sheep stealing. Being asked in the usual way whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed, the prisoner sensibly observed, " I have only this to say, my Lord, that it seems rather hard...

...Brummel tie, is the speech of the Lord Grey of Wilton, who was tried with Raleigh in 1603. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced, these were his words: " I have nothing to say"; there he paused long; "and yet a word of...