Equality before the Law

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 24, 1898

Equality before the Law

Equality before the Law.—Perhaps in no other country is this principle retained in the courts as it is in England. Only recently a fine was imposed upon Her Majesty because one of her dogs was picked up on the street without the regulation muzzle. And a titled gentleman has just been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for forgery. It was pleaded in extenuation that the good name of an ancient and honorable family was at stake, and the sum involved had been replaced; but the judge held that the higher the standing of the offender, the greater the responsibility.