...condition above described of Judge JW 0. Blackstone. . . ' . • . •, The prisoner, Pevlinlc, when asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, replied that he did not think he should be sentenced because there was no judge presiding at hii trial....

...denied by the alcalde, and the colored man ordered to stand up for sentence. On being asked whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, he rose, and, in a voice tremulous with emotion, replied, that he had a few words to say. He then frankly...

...court-room. When he was brought to the bar on the next day to hear his sentence, the judge asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed. " I have many things to say, if you will hear them," said Howgill. " First, as I have said, I deny...

...prisoner was brought in Court to hear his sentence. The Court ordered him to stand up, and asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. "He replied that he had nothing to say. " The Court then said to him, they must proceed to perform...

...made out ; he was proved to have married another woman, his first wife being still alive ; and he was asked, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. Tho prisoner said, the case was really one of great hardship ; his wife was not only an adultrcss,...

...quote a few passages from the speech of Langston, a colored man,. after his trial and conviction, when asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced ; a speech which for impassioned eloquence, unshaken firmness and moral power is rivaled...

...read his decision, overruling the motion in arrest of judgment; and, when asked, in the usual form, if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, " he rose," the reporter of the Tribune says, " and leaned slightly forward, his hands resting on the...

...followed by Hart and Ruff. Osmond had just heard the verdict, and to the customary question as to whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, he had exclaimed, starting up and clinging to the bars of the dock, his eyes flashing, and the colour...

...senses, she saw, as in a dream, Abel standing up in court, erect and pale; and heard some one inquiring if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him. Abel's voice was deep and agitated, as he answered, — " I have nothing to say, but once more to protest...

...by all, and they were afterwards eager to explain that he was not a resident of their county. Being asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, Brown rose, and said: — ' I have, may it please the Court, a few words to say....