oyer and terminer

He was commissioner for oyer and terminer on the Western circuit in 1655.

Sessions of oyer and terminer were held at Derby in 1433 to investigate the affair.

They were tried in an oyer and terminer court without the benefit of a jury, and four were convicted.

Oyer and terminer.

In 1463 the mayor and aldermen were made justices of the peace with the commission of oyer and terminer.

This income was supplemented through work on commissions of assize, goal deliveries, and oyer and terminer.

'On 4 July 1538 he was nominated upon a special commission of oyer and terminer for treasons in six of the eastern counties.

Corwin served on the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which ultimately sent nineteen to the gallows.

The instructions given to Drake were to appoint judges and commissioners oyer and terminer to hear all criminal cases except treason.

Phips created a Special Court of Oyer and Terminer, to which Richards was appointed.

In 1813, he became chief judge of the court of oyer and terminer for the City and County of Baltimore.

Sheppard was imprisoned in Newgate Prison pending his trial at the next Assize of oyer and terminer.

In 1347 he was accused of misconduct, and a commission of oyer and terminer was set up to inquire into his official oppression.

On 24 July 1820, he was found guilty of treason after proceedings before a commission of oyer and terminer and was sentenced to death.

He also became Deputy Lieutenant and commissioner for oyer and terminer on Home circuit in July 1660.

During the 1650s he sat on various commissions: for example, for the assessment in Norfolk and for oyer and terminer in London.

In 1662 he was commissioner for oyer and terminer for the Shropshire circuit and commissioner for corporations until 1663.

The best-known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town.

The King appointed a particularly strong commission of oyer and terminer headed by his brother George, Duke of Clarence, to restore order.

Gedney was present at several of the examinations and later served as a member of the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

When the Court of Oyer and Terminer convened at the end of May, this brought the total number of people in custody to 62.

Following this, he was appointed to the court of oyer and terminer, but resigned immediately to accept a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Their criminal commissions were the commission of the peace, the commission of oyer and terminer and the commission of gaol delivery.

In February 1400, Sir Hugh was a Commissioner of oyer and terminer dispensing the king's justice in the south-west.

The Court of Oyer and Terminer pays more attention to the request for speed and less attention to the criticism of spectral evidence.