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"The right of impeaching every French subject who is not a prince of the blood; the right of quashing all proceedings taken against any Frenchman, who is neither king nor prince. The procureur-general is the king's right hand to punish the guilty; the office is the means whereby also he can evade the administration of justice.
His trying the repetition was like Lord Byron's quashing a similar illusion, but of a suit of clothes hung up to look like a friend whom he believed he saw in the spirit. A more widely read man would have dismissed the "fetch" like the President-elect, but with a laugh. President Lincoln was wont to carry his mother's old Bible about with him in the Capital City.
He said this with so innocent and plausible a face that at first it did not seem very objectionable to Charlton. "What would we gain by quashing the indictment, Mr. Conger?" "Well, if the indictment were quashed on the ground of a defect in its substance, then the case falls. But this is only defective in form. Another grand jury can indict you again.
This was the essence of the document; and all the parts of it which were capable of corroborative proof having been substantiated, a free pardon issued from the crown the technical mode of quashing an unjust criminal verdict and Mademoiselle de Tourville was restored to liberty. She did not return to France.
On the 11th they passed through the assembly a declaration that the country was in danger, and two days later imposed a vote quashing the action of the Department and reinstating Pétion. The ferment now blended inextricably the war fever and the action against the King. Volunteers were enrolling for the army.
The instant quashing of her purpose by their absence affected her brain as a sudden vacuum affects the body she nearly fainted. Who had done this? There was only one person on the premises besides herself. Eustacia involuntarily turned to the open window which overlooked the garden as far as the bank that bounded it.
To me he told that, driven to madness by the insults offered to him, he had upbraided the court- martial with their corrupt propensities, and had even mentioned that overtures had been made to him for quashing the proceedings in return for a sum of two millions of francs; and that his sole reason for not entertaining the proposal was his distrust of those who made it.
"By setting the prisoners at liberty," he said, "the ordonnance falls to the ground." I did not wish to push things further just then. The liberation of the prisoners, and the quashing of the ordonnance, were determined on: some voices were for the reimbursement of the charges at the expense of the Intendant, and for preventing him to do the like again.
The Keeper produced one or two papers, respecting the information laid before the privy council concerning the riot, as it was termed, at the funeral of Allan Lord Ravenswood, and the active share he had himself taken in quashing the proceedings against the Master.
The rejection of the appeal by the Privy Council no more proves the guilt of the condemned than their innocence would have been proved by quashing the proceedings before the Martial Law Tribunal. Moreover, these cases clearly come under the Royal Proclamation in accordance with its interpretation by the Punjab Government.
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