Remarks At the Recent State Temperance Convention Held in Boston On the ...
Remarks At the Recent State Temperance Convention Held in Boston On the ...
Huntington, Asahel, 1761-1813
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Yet, Sir, I have heard, on good authority, that, in one of the counties of the Com- monwealth, where numerous cases, after all the legal delays had been resorted to, were ready and ripe for judgment and sentence, the parties were not brought in or sent for, and, of course, could not be sentenced ; and those cases are ne- cessarily postponed to another criminal term of that county. That was no fault or neglect of the Court. The Court passes upon such cases as are brought to its notice by the pub...lic prosecutor. If this officer neglects his duty, the pub- lie suffers, and the law also suffers in its good name. There have been delays enough in the execution of this law, and necessary delays, without adding to them by the neglect or inefficiency of public officers. Let tbe public, Sir, whose servants they are, look to this thing, in all such cases ; and let all men who have public functions to discharge, be Digitized by Googk HON. ASAHEL HUNTINGTON. 9 kept up to, as well as within, the strict line of their duty.
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