![]() ![]() The one redeeming feature for the defendant is that the king’s justices acted as counsel for the defendant, meaning that they were tasked with explaining the intricacies of pleading procedure to the defendant so that he might make an informed decision. Hue and Cry: a newspaper advertisement that offered rewards for the recapture of slaves who had escaped their masters. Gender also mattered in the formulation of a defense strategy: women rarely opted to stand mute, but those who did were in dire straits. From the late 18th century until 1839, Hue and Cry was a principal or variant title for the weekly newspaper, containing details of crimes and wanted people, that afterwards became better known as the Police Gazette. The medieval evidence demonstrates that these rules developed late and were enforced at the discretion of the justices. By the time she published her first novel as Isabel Bolton, Mary Britton. Historians have often assumed that medieval justices, like their early modern counterparts, did not permit silence upon appeal or treason. This is a guest post by the novelist and childrens book author Eric Brown. Distinctions were made based on venue, process, and the nature of the charge. Not only were there multiple means of standing mute, but silence only sometimes functioned as a refusal to plead. ![]() beautiful women painted out-of-doors, are some of the themes depicted. Chapter 2 speaks to the process of standing mute in the courts of medieval England, with the underlying goal of assessing the challenges an accused felon faced in negotiating the legal process sufficiently to develop a solid defense strategy. is one of the worlds leading plein air painters according to Eric Rhodes. Peine forte et dure was the sentence imposed on suspected felons who stood mute, that is, who refused to plead. ![]()
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