In criminal cases, if the defendantis discharged the alderman's costs are paid by the county.
Hearings are held, the defendantis committed to jail, or bail is allowed.
If the claim is paid without suit a percentage charge is made for the service; if the defendant ignores the notice the alderman will enter suit.
A defendant is given twenty days in which to take his appeal.
For notifying plaintiff where defendant has been arrested .
Suits may be entered before more than one alderman, and in such cases although but one execution may issue, a defendant can be harried by threats and a multiplicity of summonses.
Bail was refused by the alderman on one pretext and another and the defendant was told that if he would pay the costs the alderman would see to it that the whole matter was dropped.
These costs the defendant if guilty is supposed to pay.
At a recent hearing before an alderman, who is without exception one of the most upright and efficient in the city, the evidence of the plaintiff was very uncertain while that of the defendant was clear and convincing.
A hearing must then promptly be held; and the alderman decides whether there is sufficient evidence to hold the defendant for court; if so the prisoner is held for bail if the offense is bailable, or committed to jail in default.
The testimony of the defendant regarding a conspiracy against him, and his statement that he cannot get a fair trial, do not appeal a particle to a Judge sitting in a proceeding of this kind.
In answer to the eighth interrogatory the deponent saith, I know of nothing which, in my opinion, can be of service to the defendant in the cause.
Do you know any matter, circumstance, or thing which can be material to the defendant in this cause?
I had no knowledge of the defendant but what was derived from his general reputation before the last session of Congress, when a personal acquaintance commenced upon my becoming a member of the Senate.
The defendant was acquitted of the charge of rape--the age of consent in Texas being 12 years at that time; but whether she was raped or seduced, the infamy occurred at Baylor University.
The Bench decided that the defendant should give sureties of £20 to return to work, or be committed to prison for one month.
It was to the effect that the defendant was a marksman (that is, made his mark and did not sign his name), and that the bond was never read over to him.
As a matter of course, the coming lawsuit gave rise to a great deal of chaff on the part of the guests, although the victim of this badinage and defendant in the suit was not there.
The verdict was based upon the "consideration" that the defendant had not carried out altogether the promise set forth on the programme.
When it was found that this defendant here had inherited she called, paid my fee and made the statement as given.
He had seen the body after death, but had not examined the back of the head; had seen a small cut upon the temple, which the defendant had explained to him was made by her falling against the glass in the conservatory.
And upon these facts, we say, thedefendant is guilty of murder.
The following may be enumerated as the most important: (1) That the general conduct of the plaintiff gave the defendant "probable cause" for believing the charges to be true.
That as soon as the defendant discovered that he was in error he published a retraction, correction or apology.
King, which the defendant paid immediately in court.
If so, such juror bribed and the defendantwho bribed him shall each pay ten times the amount of the bribe to the plaintiff and be imprisoned not more than six months without release on bail or surety.
Alternately, the tenant-defendant could still chose trial by duel.
It was advantageous for a party to sue for trespass in the King's court because there a defendant could be made to pay a fine to the King or imprisoned, or declared outlaw if he did not appear at court.
He did not trust the reliance on friends of the defendant swearing that his statement made in his defense was true.
The defendant denied the trespass and put himself on the country.
If this process was inconclusive, the defendant was told to go to church and to take the sacrament only if he were innocent.
The defendant said that the apprentice lent his master's goods to others and promised to restore them or their value, but went away against his wish; and he demanded a jury.
Otherwise, community members would stand up to swear on behalf of the plaintiff or the defendant as to their reputation for veracity.
A defendant who appeals a decision for the purpose of delaying execution of such shall pay costs and damages to the plaintiff for the delay.
In an action of debt upon an agreement, the defendant may wage his law: but otherwise it is upon a lease of lands for term of years, or at will.
If a defendant has denied doing the acts of which he is convicted, he is subject to an additional fine to the King and imprisonment.
An important evidentiary difference between procedures of the Chancery and the common law courts was that the Chancellor could orally question the plaintiff and the defendant under oath.
In his reply Sir John so far overstepped the bounds of propriety, that the Defendant would not allow him to proceed, and was supported by the Court.
Defendant considers this the free investigation of opinions; and to prosecute a blasphemous publication, he says, is to prevent freedom of opinion.
This publication--for the sale of which the Defendantwas indicted--was not fair argument and inquiry, but blasphemous invective.
The Defendant had said that Mr. Haslam was a Socialist; now the Socialists held an opinion that marriage was an institution that ought to be abolished.
George Sherwill, collector of poor's-rate for the liberty of the Savoy, proved that defendant was rated for No.
He would call a witness who purchased these books in the defendant's shop, the defendant himself being present; and he should prove that the defendant was rated to that house.
The Defendantthen retired, and the Court adjourned.
The Defendant accused him of not objecting so much to the matter of the publication, as to the price at which it was sold.
The Attorney-General observed, that the Defendant denied being the publisher, but he would convince the Jury that he was, by reading the title to them.
Without any provocation whatever, this defendant inflicted great personal injury upon my client.
Your Honor," said he, "I presume I am the defendantin this case.
There is no doubt, however, that the defendantused reprehensible language, and offered some resistance to the constable in the execution of his duty.
The defendantturns to me sharp and says: "You stupid lout--I'm a magistrate.
The defendant gave me a push with the words: "Get out, you idiot!
In view of the double assault and the condition of the constable's eye, and in the absence of the Superintendent, I thought it my duty to retain the defendant for the night.
Defendant John Builder--what do you say to all this?
When you spoke of thedefendant seeing red, what exactly did you mean?
On his recounting the circumstances of the assault, they were taken down and read over to the defendant with the usual warning.
At ten minutes to four, Your Worship, yesterday afternoon, Constable Moon brought the defendant to the station in a four-wheeled cab.
As things stand now in New York and most other jurisdictions there are no adequate means open to the State to find out the actual present or past mental condition of the defendant until the trial itself, and ofttimes not even then.
The district attorney's own experts had pronounced the defendant a hopeless paranoiac; the prosecutor had, at a previous trial, openly declared the same to be his own opinion; and the evidence was convincing.
The lawyer advised the defendant to plead guilty, provided the judge could be induced to let him off with a fine, which the policy King agreed to pay.
Of course, when they testify later at the trial they inevitably begin their testimony with the stereotyped phrase, "I first warned the defendant that anything which he said might be used against him.
Every judge in a criminal case is required to charge the jury in form or substance somewhat as follows: "The defendant is presumed to be innocent until that presumption is removed by competent evidence".
In the first place, save where the defendant obviously belongs to the vicious criminal class, a jury finds it somewhat difficult to believe, unless overwhelming motive be shown, that he could have deliberately taken another's life.
The jury has no right to consider the fact that the defendant stands at the bar accused of a crime by an indictment found by the grand jury.
If he guesses that the right one is wrong or the wrong one right the defendant gets a new trial.
Thus, in the Fisher case, the defendant having been arrested on the street, the detectives desired to search the apartment of the family with which he lived.
The defendant in a baseless or vexatious action could not even recover his costs thus indirectly, and the indirect costs given to a plaintiff under the name of damages were often inadequate and uncertain.
Legally, then, at the time of the Treaty of Peace in 1783, "the defendant owed nothing to the plaintiff.
For if you condemn the defendant on the ground that my policy was not for the best, men will think that your own judgement has been wrong, and that it was not through the unkindness of fortune that you suffered what befell you.
A statement of account, it is true, calls for an audit and scrutineers; but a free gift deserves gratitude and thanks; and that is why the defendant proposed this motion in my favour.
At the close of the war, both plaintiff and defendantreturned to the settlement, each claiming the land in dispute.
Linn errs in his reference to the defendant as "Satcha.
In the spring of 1775 the defendant came to the settlement, and was advised by the Fair Play Men to settle on the premises which Hughes had left; this he did, and built a cabin.
In view of the important fact that the defendant has not shown the least trace of regret for his deed, the sentence provides that he shall spend his two years' incarceration in the most rigid solitary confinement.
The defendant is a State, a member of the Union, which has exercised the powers of government over a People who deny its jurisdiction, and are under the protection of the United States.
The defendant in the State Court appeared in proper person, and filed the following plea: "And the said Samuel A.
They have no lawyers, but every man is his own advocate; and both the complaint of the accuser and the answer of the defendant are in manner of petition delivered to the Emperor, entreating justice at his hands.
The defendant answereth by an oath; thereupon the officer is commanded to cease from beating of him until the matter be further tried.
The leading nature of the direct examination, so marked in all English courts, was conspicuous in such questions as the following: Q: "Did the defendant telephone you about 4.
If the plaintiff succeeds, the Master will not allow him the eighty-eight guineas, but will decide that the more modest armament of the defendant would have been sufficient.
Another defendant appears in person: Defendant: "I've got no defence, all I want is time.
This means that the plaintiff is obliged to furnish the defendant, in so many days, all the particulars which the Master did not strike out, and must pay the defendant the costs of the application.
The defendant demands particulars of the plaintiff as to who were his customers.
In this way, the time of a defendant who admits the debt is not diverted from his work to attend court.
Master: "I'll give you judgment generally for L21, but you write defendant a letter stating that you will not issue execution as you have just stated.
A plaintiff, perhaps, will be asked: "How came the defendant to write this letter and what was its object?
Then a defendant appears in person: Master: "Do you owe the L26?
Out they go and the next enter; here the defendant asks for delay, and gets seven days which is endorsed on the summons and requires a minute.
As most of the witnesses are in London, the defendant wants to try the case here, but the plaintiff wishes to try it in Manchester where the parties live.
Then follows a summons bydefendant upon plaintiff for particulars of goods sold and delivered.
The defendant asks for an order upon the plaintiff for a statement of claim and discovery of correspondence, which is granted.
It is the usual practice for a King's Counsel to insist on having a junior when appearing for the defendant in like cases and when appearing for the prosecution or the defence on trials of criminal indictments".
On Thursday night, the 17th of May last, between nine and ten o'clock at night, the defendant sent his lad to call Mrs. Polly Bernard to his house.
Now the real object for which Mrs. Bernard was thus called to the house of the defendant became soon apparent.
It has been too common in actions of this kind, for the defendant to treat with contumely the humble situation of the injured prosecutor.
I challenge the defendant to name, even in one slight instance, any thing in the conduct of my client's wife, that such a ready compliance could be expected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defendant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
