Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion,… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers.… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed and equal,… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws,… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
