The Homicide Trial
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
appear as defendant · appear in court · evidence · fair hearing · judicial inquiry · oaths · summon · the indictment · the present trial · the trial
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
The First Tetralogy
The ongoing capital homicide prosecution—comprising the tetralogy's four speeches—in which the defendant's guilt or innocence for the double killing is argued and decided, repeatedly compared by both sides to the lesser, non-capital indictment that preceded it.
so both justice and expediency absolutely forbid you to acquit him.
But he did not, on the other hand, expect to be involved in the present trial, as he thought that he could commit the murder without being found out.
I will now show that, unless I was mad, I must have thought the danger in which I now stand far greater, instead of less, than the danger to be expected from the indictment.
The Second Tetralogy
The judicial proceeding itself: the trial before the jury in which both fathers deliver paired prosecution and defense speeches disputing legal and moral responsibility for the boy's death.
Cases in which the facts are agreed upon are settled in advance either by the law or by the statutes of the Assembly, which between them control every branch of civic life.
and he, but for his audacity, would not have had the twofold advantage over me of using one speech to answer the one speech for the prosecution and making his accusations when they could not be answered.
for I myself, who, unless I am sorely mistaken, am very far from finding or wanting to find such a task congenial, have today been forced by sheer misfortune to depart from my habits and appear as defendant in a case in which I found it hard enough to arrive at the exact truth, but which leaves me still more perplexed when I consider how I should present it to you.
Against Aristocrates
The lawful process required before punishment for homicide.
What does that mean?
only the laws and the appointed officers have power over the man for punishment.
He struck out submission to trial, and made the culprit liable to immediate seizure;