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Essays and addresses, 4; 1 Hale PI Crown 94; Foster Crim. Law 185. During the time an alien friend is within the realm he owes local allegiance, and High Treason may be "contra legeantiae suae debitum," as in the case of a subject, "contra Dominum suum. " It is probable that originally there was no interval between sentence and execution and the unhappy convict was drawn at once to the gallows; but at least as early as the sixteenth century the prisoner was ordered first to be taken to the place whence he came and thence to the place of execution. Stanfords "Les Plees del Coron (dated 1560) foil. prev next |