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Thus, in a criminal suit, "a motion in arrest of judgment," means a motion in arrest of sentence. In cases of sentence, therefore, in criminal suits, the words sentence and judgment are synonymous terms. They are, to this day, commonly used in law books as synonymous terms. And the phrase per jndicium parium suorum, therefore, implies that the jury are to fix the sentence.
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