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Moreover he argued that before the trial is held such expressions as
“if a man kill,” “if a man rob a
temple,” “if a man commit treason,” and the like,
are merely phrases of accusation: they become definitions of crime only after
trial and conviction. To a formula of accusation he thought it proper to attach
not punishment, but only trial; and therefore, when enacting that, if one man
killed another, the Council should take cognizance, he did not lay down what
should be done to the culprit if found guilty.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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