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Quotes from Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) — Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet

1763–1841 England

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No one can doubt that presumptions may be made in criminal as well as in civil cases. It is constantly the practice to act upon them, and I apprehend that more than one half of the persons convicted of crimes are convicted on presumptive evidence.

Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) (1820)

[T]ake it to be the bounden duty of the Judge to lay down the law as it strikes him, and that of the jury to accede to it, unless they have superior knowledge on the subject.

Trial of Sir Francis Burdett (King v. Burdett) (1820)

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