John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge - Criminal Quotes

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I for one would never be a party, unless the law were clear, to saying to any man who put forward his views on those most sacred things, that he should be branded as apparently criminal because he differed from the majority of mankind in his religious views or convictions on the subject of religion. If that were so, we should get into ages and times which, thank God, we do not live in, when people were put to death for opinions and beliefs which now almost all of us believe to be true.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge