| Mississippi. Supreme Court, Thomas Alexander Marshall, William C. Smedes, Volney Erskine Howard, Robert John Walker, John Franklin Cushman, James Zachariah George - 1918 - 1022 pages
...817. In Sahlinger v. People, 102 111. 241, the court said: "The constitutional right of a prisoner to appear and defend in person and by counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation, to meet the witnesses face to face, was conferred for the protection and the benefit... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1966 - 224 pages
...criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to a speedy and public trial; to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation and to have a copy thereof; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1966 - 1018 pages
...criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to a speedy and public trial; to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation and to have a copy thereof; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in... | |
| 1920 - 968 pages
...is provided, among other things, that, in criminal prosecutions, "in any court whatever," the party accused shall have the right to appear and defend "in person and with counsel." The federal constitution (article VI) contains a like guaranty. Of course, the right... | |
| Alabama. Court of Appeals, Lawrence H. Lee - 1911 - 764 pages
...contained in Declaration of Rights, ยง 6, securing to every one accused of crime the right "to demand the nature and cause of the accusation, and to have a copy thereof," in the light of the fact that for a number of years our statutes followed the English laws and gave... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1971 - 170 pages
...criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to a speedy and public trial ; to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation and to have a copy thereof ; to be confronted with the witnesses against him ; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1907 - 800 pages
...constitution of 1901 it is provided that the accused in a criminal prosecution shall have the right "to demand the nature and cause of the accusation and to have a copy thereof." This right, however, is one that may be waived by the accused. On the facts stated the court committed... | |
| E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - 1999 - 714 pages
...shall have been previously ascertained by law .... (Emphasis added.) 11. In criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have the right to appear and defend in person, and ... to have a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county in which the offense is alleged... | |
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