I can't look to contingencies. - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

It is of infinite importance to the public that the acts of magistrates should not only be substantially good, but also that they should be decorous.

The character of the Judges is public property, and if they have done anything amiss, they ought to be censured. But if not, their characters ought to be respected; otherwise the most mischievous consequences will arise to the public.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.