"We cannot explore any mode of sentencing a man to imprisonment, who is imprisoned already, but by tacking one impriso…"

"If once we go upon niceties of construction, we shall not know where to stop. For one nicety is made a foundation for…"

"Nothing could be of worse consequence, than that an officer of the Court should combine with a criminal to frustrate …"

"It is the principle of the common law, that an officer ought not to take money for doing his duty."

"The time makes no difference in the reason of the thing."

"It is a strange, wild jurisdiction, where the jurors are judges both of law and fact, and ignorant country fellows2 a…"

"I cannot help thinking that where a person appeals to the Law of England, he must take his remedy according to the La…"

"The sentences of foreign Courts have always some degree of regard paid to them by the Courts of justice here: and it …"

"You all very well know what deference I always pay, and ever will, to that part of the office of a jury which properl…"

"Many of the old cases are strange and absurd : so also are some of the modern ones."