The accusation was in the old German form ; but only a Freischöffe could act as accuser.

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.

He was first to take part only as accuser, yet among the bishops.

It was around this time that he was charged with having conspired against the life of Commodus, but he had the good fortune to be acquitted and to witness the punishment of his accuser.

He was apparently able to memorize necessary techniques from textbooks and worked on two cardinal rules: The burden of proof is on the accuser and When in danger, attack.

This sordid, sensational affair held the city in thrall and Vergniaud handled it with tremendous skill: the young woman was proven innocent of all the charges and her false accuser was imprisoned instead.

Ithacius acted as his accuser and was so vehement in his denunciations that St Martin of Tours, who was then in Trier, intervened, and, after expressing his disapproval of bringing an ecclesiastical case before a civil tribunal, obtained from the emperor a promise not to carry his condemnation to the extent of shedding blood.

She told him that she was his accuser in heaven, on account of an unchaste thought the ( married ) narrator had once had concerning her, though only in passing.

Two years later, it was revealed that Clarke had received payment from Frederick's disgraced chief accuser, and the Prince Regent reappointed the now exonerated Frederick as Commander-in-Chief on 29 May 1811.

The accuser, who was condemned to death in the reign of Roman Emperor Vespasian for his conduct on this occasion, is a standing example of ingratitude and treachery.

Sometimes the accuser was rewarded with the rights of citizenship, a place in the senate, or a share of the property of the accused.

The chief motive for these accusations was no doubt the desire of amassing wealth, since by the law of majestas one-fourth of the goods of the accused, even if he committed suicide in order to avoid confiscation ( which was always carried out in the case of those condemned to capital punishment ), was assured to the accuser ( who was hence called quadruplator ).

The criminal appeal was a private criminal prosecution instituted by the accuser directly against the accused.

" Their accuser was later imprisoned for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Wotton was at the time on leave in England, and made two formal defences of himself, one a personal attack on his accuser addressed to Marcus Welser of Strassburg, and the other privately to the king.

By the end of the review he was angry with Thomas Jefferson for supporting General James Wilkinson, Burr's chief accuser.

When this rule is applied to criminal process ( whether or not that was done in Roman law itself ), it places the burden of proof upon the accuser, which has the corollary that the accused is presumed to be innocent.

In 1828 he was sued for slander ( but got the suit dismissed ), and in 1831 he was sued for libel, and ordered to pay his accuser $ 5.

Within a generation, George Wyatt, whose father Thomas Wyatt had known the Boleyns personally, described Jane as a " wicked wife, accuser of her own husband, even to the seeking of his own blood.

A gang led by his accuser hanged his wife and children and burned their bodies ; in revenge, George used his sledgehammer to beat his accuser and the other culprits to death.

However, in Crawford v. Washington,, the Supreme Court increased the scope of the Confrontation Clause by ruling that " testimonial " out-of-court statements are inadmissible if the accused did not have the opportunity to cross-examine that accuser and that accuser is unavailable at trial.

Becarria said of torture that " it to confound all relations to expect that a man should be both accuser and accused and that pain should be the test of truth, as though truth resided in the muscles and fibres of a wretch under torture.

The low point of her very brief tenure came on May 14, 1985 during George's interview with false rape accuser Cathleen Crowell Webb and the man whom she had falsely accused, Gary Dotson.

To accuse another man of being argr was called scolding ( see " nīþ "), and thus a legal reason to challenge the accuser in holmgang.

:" No accuser or witnesses were necessary to prove the crime, for it was well known to all.

Little is known of Meletus ' life beyond what is portrayed in the Socratic literature, particularly Plato's dialogues, where he is named as the chief accuser of Socrates.

This makes it impossible for the accuser to induce friends or family to give false evidence in support of their accusations because, normally, this evidence would be rejected by the presiding authority or judge.

The immense development of the Fehme is explained by the privileges of the Freischöffen ; for they were subject to no jurisdiction but those of the Westphalian courts: whether as accused or accuser they had access to the secret sessions, and they shared in the discussions of the general chapter as to the policy of the society.

" Later Phillips produced Lie Detector as a series for PAX / ION — some of the guests included Paula Jones, Reverend Paul Crouch accuser Lonny Ford, Ben Rowling, Jeff Gannon and Swift Boat Vet, Steve Garner.

This measure has often been criticized for having compromised the fundamental democratic and human right of an open trial wherein the accused faces the accuser.

He refused to apologize for his actions in the leadup to the Duke University lacrosse rape scandal, stating that he did not know whether or not anything happened to the young accuser.

Louis the Pious prescribed combat between witnesses of each side rather than between the accuser and the accused and briefly allowed for the Ordeal of the Cross in cases involving clerics.

" Used as a verb, " dead agenting " is described by Hubbard as a technique for countering negative accusations against Scientology by diverting the critical statements and making counter-accusations against the accuser.

During Roberts ' research into Major Rogers, his researcher uncovered transcripts of both of Major Rogers ' courts-martial ( once as the accuser and once as the accused ), which had been thought lost for over a century, and these were published in the second volume of a special two-volume edition of Northwest Passage.

The main accuser and enemy of García, Fernando Olivera, left Peru after Fujimori's fall, and is still being sought for corruption charges.

In such an instance the accused is permitted to pray unto the Court for remedy or sanction against his accuser or plaintiff, for his inability to be able to confront the papers and / or effects ( i. e., material items, physical exhibits, technical analyses, lab reports, etc.

Furthermore, anyone who flees to a temple for being accused of a crime must be pardoned by the accuser upon departure from the temple.

When the struggle between the Maimonists and anti-Maimonists arose, Samuel did not escape reproach for having spread the ideas of Maimonides, his chief accuser being Judah al-Fakhkhar.

Thus shall be done for all grievances or thievery, if the accuser cannot provide proof, and the grievance is for less than half of gold grivna, then give him a trial by iron in captivity ; if the grievance is for less than that, but more than two silver grivnas, then trial by water ; if it is even less, then he must make an oath.

The accuser was absent during the proceeding and failed to respond to the lawsuit for defamation.

Earlier, Globe had named the accuser in the William Kennedy Smith rape case, achieving notoriety for that move.