So the notion was accepted that the magistrate should be responsible for execution of the sentence he, or the judge appointed by him, had pronounced.
The judge nevertheless pronounced the three officers guilty and sentenced them to transportation for life.
"The judge will now pronounce sentence," said the herald majestically.
In the middle of the afternoon, the judge, a lieutenant colonel who looked as if he'd seen far too many cases, pronounced Metcalfe not guilty.
The judges felt Raja's video performance was lackluster, but pronounced her safe as well.
The judge pronounced it distastefully, adjourned the count and left.
Without examining the "evidence" or asking any questions, the judge pronounced his sentence.
Unmoved, the judges pronounced the journalists guilty of spreading hatred against the Government.
When Andy is convicted of his wife's murder, the judge pronounces him "a particularly remorseless and icy man."
The five on one assault 'was not affray' the judge pronounced.