The question of Socialism was of no importance unless it was connected with the murder of Degan, and the defendants were not being tried for any offense but that of conspiracy which resulted in the murder of Degan.
When there is an intent grievously to hurt and death is occasioned, then the offense is murder.
Still there was a difficulty in his case: the Massachusetts delegates could not be brought to support him; it was said that he had given some of their leaders mortal offense by his hostility to the River and Harbor Bill.
To propagate evil reports with a design to injure the reputation of another; to make purposely false charges of some offense or crime.
Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.
To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.
Sin is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God.
It is also necessary to examine, in each case, whether the person who has committed the offense was not irresponsible and affected with mental disease at the time; or whether his responsibility was not diminished, i.
They become accustomed to disparage everything automatically, to take offense at everything and to speak ill of everything on every occasion.
The question naturally presents itself of knowing how far it is permitted to proceed publicly with a mutual agreement without causing offense or injury to other parties.
This offense to the divinity was therefore only the nebulous expression of a developing social conscience in man, an obscure mixture of sentiments of wounded sympathy, adulation of the strong and great, and desire for vengeance and expiation.
In a kingdom, the monarch is looked upon as a holy person and offense to his majesty as a crime; in a democracy, it is individual domination which is regarded as criminal.
And if he shall differ from them as acting against right, then let the offense be adjudged upon before the mayor and aldermen; and if he be found rebellious against the ordinance, let him pay to the Chamber the sum above mentioned.
Burglary was an offense committed in times of peace and consisted of breaking into churches, houses, and into the walls and gates of villages and boroughs.
A dog bite or other damage by a dog known by its owner to be vicious was made a more serious offense than general damage by any dog.
The first offense by offending printers was to be punished by suspension from printing for three years, the second offense by permanent disallowance from printing, fine, imprisonment, and corporal punishment not extending to life or limb.
The third offenseis felony without benefit of clergy.
The penalty for threatening the toll collector or forcibly passing through was 5 pounds for the first offense, and 10 pounds for the second offense with imprisonment for one year for those who couldn't pay.
A new form of action is trespass on the case, which did not require the element of force or of breach of the peace that the trespass offense requires.
The penalty for a second offense was given as transportation for seven years.
The penalty for a second offense or for destroying a storehouse or granary where grain is kept to be exported or for taking or spoiling such grain, or for throwing such off a ship or vessel is transportation for seven years.
The amount of flogging due for each offense rose over time.
If the offense is punishable with death or state prison for life, the state has in Minnesota seven peremptory challenges and the defendant twenty.
The Supreme Court has decided that the president has power also to commute sentences; and that he may act in the matter at any time after the offense is committed, even before the trial.
This is an informal statement in writing addressed to the court setting forth the offense and stating that there is a reasonable probability that a certain person, named, has committed it.
But if no suitable bail is offered, or if the offense is not bailable, the accused is committed to jail.
Can a member be punished for anoffense committed before he was elected?
So Potter lost sight of Cantor in his larger aspects; submerged the menace of the German master-spy in the minoroffense of a wrong done by an individual to an individual.
Suspension for a definite or indefinite period, according to the offense is necessary for the maintenance of good discipline.
The length of time he is suspended depends on his previous conduct and on theoffense in question; from a day to a month or more.
Such disturbance is usually caused through thoughtlessness, not from any desire to break a library rule, and after people have been cautioned they rarely commit the offense again.
Far from taking offense at your continued suspicion of me, I am really pleased.
May I hope that nooffense will be taken," said Poubalov, "if I say that I planned to tell these things to you only?
But he was a first-rate man and I didn't want to lose him, so I wrote him a sharp letter and told him that a repetition of his offense would cause him to receive his time instantly.
This gave offense to Taylor, the Water poet, and helped to produce that miserable squabble printed among his works, and from which I have principally derived the substance of this note.
Whether the subject which gave offense was the one which we have been considering or that of witchcraft, it is, however, impossible to determine.
Pentecost: "Paine's offense was not that he was an Infidel, but that he made his meaning so clear that the common people could become Infidels, too.
I privately called the sheriff to my side and asked him if the person that he had placed upon the jury was the same person as the defendant in the next case, accused of a like offense of the one we were to try.
The slight fines that had theretofore been imposed for this offense had simply been tolerated, and amounted in practice to a system of licensing these violations of the law.
Attorneys had been mobbed in the streets of the city for the offense of prosecuting the violators of the prohibitory law, and there had been no proper expression of public sentiment condemning the outrage.
And this I say without meaning offense to anybody in particular; Heaven forbid.
When it is prescribed that a bone shall not be broken this may be for fear of giving offense to the animal kin and thus insuring failure in further hunting.
If the petitioner went to some god or supernatural Power other than the tribal god, this was an offense against tribal life.
Among the transgressions most severely dealt with, were purely political offenses; and a political offense was essentially to have picked the wrong side in the many religious, dynastic or civic disturbances of the period.
However great my reluctance I felt I couldnt afford to risk giving offense and so at fouroclock promptly I was in Georgetown, using the knocker of a door looking like all the other doors on both sides of the street.
I state a thought so old no one knows who first expressed it and a hearer feels bound to choose between offense to himself and contempt for the speaker.
Don't come back here, but attempt for once to palliate the offense of your birth and go interview that Francis female.
One of the humble habitations of the lowest terrace is noticeable for its rude resemblance to the human face, or rather to such a simulacrum of it as a boy might cut out of a hollowed pumpkin, meaning no offense to his race.
A woman guilty of adultery, for the first offense is punished by having her hair cropped; for repeated offenses her left ear is cut off.
Here was an offense against decency and sanitary regulations, indictable at common law.
About the first of May, 1640, he allowed the Boys to act without license a play that gave great offense to the King.
Footnote 156: I suspect that the theatre gave greater offense to More himself than it did to any one else, for it adjoined his home, and the audience made use of the private passage which led from Water Lane to his mansion.
John Day's Isle of Guls, acted in February, 1606, gave great offense to the Court.
But in the early spring of 1608 they committed the most serious offense of all by acting Chapman's Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron.
The following year the Children gave much more serious offense by acting Eastward Hoe, a comedy in which Marston, Chapman, and Jonson collaborated.
Tis easier for the generous to forgive than for offense to ask it.
