 | 1911 - 1162 pages
...Blackstone, bk. 4, p. 327, says: "The English judgment of penance for standing mute was as follows: That the prisoner be remanded to the prison from whence...decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight of iron as he could bear, and more; that he have no sustenance, save only, on the... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 908 pages
...that very means it might rarely he put in execution.8 The judgment for standing mute was as follows : That the prisoner be remanded to the prison from whence...decency forbids ; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight of iron as he can bear ; and more, that he have no sustenance, save only, on the... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - 1913 - 368 pages
...purposely ordained to be exquisitely severe, that by that very means it might rarely be put into execution. The judgment for standing mute, was: That the prisoner...decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body 1 The terms are pronounced pan fort a dur. •II. Reeve's History English Law, p. 423. as great a weight... | |
 | Edward Joseph White - 1913 - 370 pages
...be put into execution. The judgment for standing mute, was: That tlie prisoner be remanded to tn"e prison from whence he came, and put into a low, dark...decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body 1 The terms are pronounced pan fort a dur. •II. Reeve's History English Law, p. 423. as great a weight... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - 1915 - 880 pages
...executed without any further procedure. If he refused to plead to a felony other than treason the judgment was "that the prisoner be remanded to the prison from...came, and put into a low, dark chamber, and there he laid on his back, on the bare floor, naked, unless where decency forbids ; that there be placed... | |
 | 1892 - 848 pages
...This does not say the penalty was enforced, only that it was incurred. The English law of those days, for " standing mute " was that the prisoner " be remanded...decency forbids ; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight of iron as he could bear, and more, that he have no sustenance, save only on the... | |
 | 1905 - 540 pages
...by that means it might rarely be put in execution." He describes the punishment as follows (p. 827): "That the prisoner be remanded to the prison from whence he came, and put in a low, dark chamber, anil there lie laid on his bark, on the bare tloor, naked, unless decency forbids:... | |
 | Martha Woodmansee, Peter Jaszi - 1994 - 482 pages
...as 1769, Blackstone described the "cruel process" of "penance for standing mute": the prisoner shall be remanded to the prison from whence he came; and...there be laid on his back, on the bare floor, naked, unles where decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight of iron as he can... | |
 | William Schabas - 1996 - 334 pages
...most gruesome excesses of capital punishment. The penalty for standing mute, according to Blackstone, was that the prisoner be remanded to the prison from...decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight of iron as he could bear, and more; that he have no sustenance, save only, on the... | |
 | Cushman Kellogg Davis - 1999 - 306 pages
...obstinacy received the sentence of peine forte et Awre, which was that he be remanded to the prison whence he came, and put into a low, dark chamber, and there be laid on his bacls on the floor naked; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight of iron as he could... | |
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The judgment of penance for standing mute was as follows : — that the prisoner be remanded to the prison from whence he came, and put into a low, dark chamber, and there be laid on his back, on the bare floor, naked, unless where decency forbids ; that... 
