accused quotes

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

-Charles I
  Letter to Lord Wentworth, 3 Sep.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

-Thomas, 1st Baron Denman
  Judgement in O'Connell v The Queen, 4 Sep.