 Not Guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body ;" and thereupon taking off his glove, he threw it upon the floor of the court. The appellant did not choose to submit to this trial, and abandoned his proceedings.  Notes and Queries - Page 3411867Full view - About this book
 | Frederic Hill - 1894 - 396 pages
...to be tried before Ellenborough and the full Court of Queen's Bench. Instead of regular defence in arguments, evidences, and witnesses, Thornton boldly...the glove, when he was kept back by those about him. With what wonder did the assembly, and indeed the nation, ask, " Can a prisoner insist upon so obsolete... | |
 | Charles McGuffey Hepburn - 1897 - 348 pages
...Ashford vs. Thornton,1 pending in the King's Bench, the defendant pleaded successfully as follows: " 'Not guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body' ; and thereupon taking his glove off, he threw it upon the floor of the Court." It was the old wager... | |
 | Henry Budd - 1898 - 302 pages
...heard in an English court for the first time for centuries the words of demand of a trial by battel. "Not guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body!" and having said these words Thornton threw upon the floor of the court his glove, the gage of battle!... | |
 | Albert Thomas Carter - 1899 - 238 pages
...Thornton in the King's Bench for the murder. The appellee, being brought into Court, pleaded as follows : 'Not guilty. And I am ready to defend the same by my body.' And thereon taking his glove, he threw it upon the floor of the Court, meaning thereby that he was... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1901 - 372 pages
...proceeded against by the ancient process of appeal, pleaded, when brought into court, as follows : "Not guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body " ; and thereupon taking off his glove, he threw it upon the floor. The appellant, not choosing to... | |
 | Edward Manson - 1904 - 538 pages
...defendant, a labourer, of the crime under circumstances of strong suspicion. The defendant pleaded " Not guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body," and thereupon taking his glove off he threw it upon the floor. Tindal's learned argument for the ancient... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 506 pages
...being proceeded against by the ancient process of appeal, pleaded, when brought into court, as follows "Not guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body; " and thereupon, taking off his glove, he threw it upon the floor. The appellant, not choosing to respond... | |
 | Michigan State Bar Association - 1905 - 708 pages
...and for that purpose was placed at the bar the count was read over to him and he pleaded as follows: "Not guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body." Thereupon, taking his glove off, he threw it upon the floor of the court. There was then a replication... | |
 | State Bar Association of Indiana. Meeting - 1906 - 396 pages
...and for that purpose was placed at the bar, the count was read over him, and he pleaded as follows: "Not guilty, and I am ready to defend the same by my body." Thereupon, taking his glove off, he threw it upon the floor of the court. There was then a replication... | |
 | Hugh Robert Eardley Childers - 1913 - 412 pages
...King's Bench, when, the indictment having been read, Thornton, on the advice of his Counsel, pleaded : " Not guilty : and I am ready to defend the same by my body." And thereupon, taking one glove off, he threw it upon the floor of the court. It was not taken up,... | |
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