If he were one of the uninitiated it was necessary for him to bring forward witnesses to his innocence from among the initiated, whose number varied according to the number on the side of the accuser, but twenty-one in favour of innocence necessarily secured an acquittal.

If one of the litigants is unsatisfied with the decision of the lower court, the matter may be taken up on appeal ( but an acquittal in a criminal trial may not be appealed by the state due to the Fifth Amendment protection against double jeopardy ).

If, on the other hand, the crime could be shown to have had a non-political motive, this might lead to an acquittal, or at least to a lesser sentence, since French law traditionally took a lenient view of the crime passionel ( crime of passion ).

: If the judgment is upon an acquittal, the defendant, indeed, will not seek to have it reversed, and the government cannot.

If a defendant bribes a judge and obtains acquittal as a result of a bench trial, the acquittal is not valid because the defendant was never in jeopardy in the first place.

If jurors drop out because of illness or another reason, the trial can continue with a minimum of 12 jurors, but the support of 8 jurors is still needed for a guilty verdict ; anything less is treated as an acquittal.

If a person is brought to trial where they are charged with a particular crime and is convicted of a lesser offense, the conviction for a lesser offense is an acquittal of any higher-level offense ( for example, a conviction for second-degree murder is an acquittal of first-degree murder ).

If, upon the other hand, the majority were for acquittal, the minority ought to ask themselves whether they might not reasonably doubt the correctness of a judgment which was not concurred in by the majority.

Similarly, a comic minor character, Mr. Moulder, defends Lady Mason's acquittal thus: " If a jury of her countrymen doesn't make a woman innocent, what does?

If, at the end of and on the whole of the case, there is a reasonable doubt, created by the evidence given by either the prosecution or the prisoner, as to whether the prisoner killed the deceased with a malicious intention, the prosecution has not made out the case and the prisoner is entitled to an acquittal.

If the evidence shows incitement in general terms, e. g. to rob a security van, this is always possible, whereas if the subsequent agreement relates to a specific but fictitious crime, there might be an acquittal.

If, at the end of and on the whole of the case, there is a reasonable doubt as to whether the defendant committed the criminal offence in question, the prosecution has not made out the case and the defendant is entitled to an acquittal.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If the points aren't thrown all the way, the Turnout cannot be locked, and in turn, the signal cannot be cleared.

If Blanche had been honest, she would have yelled, slammed at least a couple of doors, and thrown a few little, valueless things.

We must take the offensive and beat Sinn Fein at its own tactics ... If a police barracks is burned or if the barracks already occupied is not suitable, then the best house in the locality is to be commandeered, the occupants thrown into the gutter.

If a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 is thrown on the come-out roll ( i. e., if a point is set ), most casinos allow pass line bettors to take odds by placing from one to five times ( and at some casinos, up to 100 times ) the pass line bet behind the pass line.

If the child is thrown into a passive role as a student, absorbing information, the result is a waste of the child ’ s education.

If an ineligible receiver is beyond the neutral zone when a forward pass which crosses the neutral zone is thrown, a foul of " ineligible receiver downfield " ( penalty — a loss of yardage, but not loss of down ) is called.

If a rider is thrown from a horse but has a foot caught in the stirrup, they could be dragged if the horse runs away.

If found guilty, the person was thrown to a " devourer " and didn't share in eternal life.

If they considered it " puny and deformed ", the baby was thrown into a chasm on Mount Taygetos known euphemistically as the Apothetae ( Gr., ἀποθέται, " Deposits ").

If no one gets the question right, that question is thrown out and another question is played in the same manner.

If one wanted to predict exactly how high a thrown ball would rise or exactly where and when it would hit the ground, it would be necessary to make a detailed calculation based on precise information about the ball, the altitude, the wind, and the force of the initial throw.

* If, in giving cards, any of the non-dealer's are exposed, he has the option of taking them ; should the non-dealer refuse them, they must be thrown aside and the next cards given instead.

* If he neither nicks nor throws out, the number thrown is called the chance.

If the witchdoctor was unable to heal the sick person, the ill person would immediately be thrown into the fire.

" If you smiled during the presentation, you might be thrown in the brig ( jail ).

If a player catches a ball thrown by the opposing team on the full, then the player who threw the ball is eliminated, and the team that caught the ball can reinstate the player that has been out the longest ( or the player ( s ) whom the thrower eliminated ).

If a bejant failed to produce the receipt, he could be thrown into a fountain.

If the horse does anything but run in essentially a straight line with long gradual curves, or if anything goes seriously wrong, jockeys can easily be thrown, as their high rate of injury so amply illustrates.

If he cashes the high heart, a club is thrown from the dummy, and East is squeezed.

If there is any doubt at all about the length of time the food has been defrosted at room temperature, it should be thrown out.

If a person is exposed to new observations that are inconsistent with present beliefs, he or she is thrown into imbalance.

** If the batter-runner is thrown out at second base regardless of the outcome at home plate, he is still credited with a single, since the put out was a consequence of his attempt to take second on the throw.

If the ball originated with the shortstop and was then thrown to the second baseman, the play is referred to as a " 6-4-3 double play ", after the numbers assigned to the players in order of field position ; if it is hit to the second baseman and then thrown to the shortstop, it is known as a 4-6-3 double play ( 6-shortstop, 4-second base, 3-first base ; see baseball positions ).